output meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

output

noun

US, UK /ˈaʊtpʊt/ · UK /ˈawtpɵt/

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

› That which is produced by something…

Economics, Sciences 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 1949.1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China, New York: Bookman Associates, →OCLC, page 284:

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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.2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:
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.2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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

Medicine, Sciences The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.

Business, Electrical, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics The amount of power produced by a particular system.

Business, Computing, Electrical, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Energy, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics, Sciences The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.

Derived terms: cardiac output, economic output, industrial output, input-output section, input-output table, multioutput, netput, nonoutput, output area, output arm, output rating
Related terms: input

output

verb

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

Economics, Sciences To produce, create, or complete.

We output 1400 units last year.

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.

Derived terms: outputter, reoutput

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