output — English Dictionary

Noun

1. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort. Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   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.

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   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.

   Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid and unique to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

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

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   a six-page output; six pages of output

3. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort. The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

4. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort. The amount of power produced by a particular system.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

5. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort. The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

Verb

1. To produce, create, or complete.

   Examples

   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.

   Examples

   When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.

Noun

1. final product; the things produced

   Synonyms

   end product

   Broader terms

   productproduction

2. production of a certain amount

   Synonyms

   yield

   Broader terms

   production

3. signal that comes out of an electronic system

   Synonyms

   output signal

   Broader terms

   signalsignalingsignsignalling

4. the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)

   Synonyms

   yieldproduction

   Broader terms

   indefinite quantity

   Examples

   production was up in the second quarter

5. what is produced in a given time period

   Synonyms

   outturnturnout

   Broader terms

   productproduction

Verb

1. to create or manufacture a specific amount

   Broader terms

   producemakecreate

   Examples

   the computer is outputting the data from the job I'm running