output

Substantiv

1. 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.

   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.

   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. 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.

   a six-page output; six pages of output

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

Verb

1. 1

   To produce, create, or complete.

   We output 1400 units last year.

2. 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.

Formen

Plural

outputs

Präteritum

outputted

Partizip II

outputted

Partizip I

outputting

3. Person Singular

outputs