output

That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.

Noun

  1. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
    • The factory increased its output this year.
    • Output at the Pen-ch'i mine, which produced somewhat under 1 million tons annually during 1942-1944, was around 500,000 tons in 1949. - 1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China, New York: Bookman...
    • It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards....
    1. (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.

    2. (computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.

      • a six-page output; six pages of output
    3. (medicine) The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.

    4. (electrical engineering) The amount of power produced by a particular system.

    5. (computing, electrical engineering) The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.

Origin

From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.

Forms

outputs

Related

input

Derived

cardiac output economic output industrial output input-output section input-output table multioutput netput nonoutput output area output arm output rating

Verb

  1. To produce, create, or complete.
    • We output 1400 units last year.
  2. To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.
    • When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.

Forms

outputs outputting output outputted

Derived

outputter reoutput