closed loop

noun

: an automatic control system in which an operation, process, or mechanism is regulated by feedback

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Rather than creating singular, closed loop AI tools like Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and others, Apple’s AI paves the way for multiple technology partners (similar to Salesforce’s Einstein Copilot). Laura Bratton, Quartz, 11 June 2024 Researchers at the University of Birmingham have laid out a new, closed loop retrofit for industrial iron and steel furnaces that could reduce their overall greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 90 percent. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2023 Nathan’s closed loop system is a model for reciprocity or responding to one positive action with another. Jarret Jackson, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023 The pilot stage product is still generating data to achieve the necessary certifications for the US market on its closed loop system that acts as a water battery to heat hot water in the winter and cool the water in the summer without limitations. Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022 See all Example Sentences for closed loop 

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of closed loop was in 1951

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“Closed loop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/closed%20loop. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.

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