output
That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
Noun
- 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....
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(economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
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(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
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(medicine) The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
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(electrical engineering) The amount of power produced by a particular system.
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(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.
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cardiac output economic output industrial output input-output section input-output table multioutput netput nonoutput output area output arm output rating
Verb
- To produce, create, or complete.
- We output 1400 units last year.
- 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.