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English
Etymology
From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.
Pronunciation
Noun
output (countable and uncountable, plural outputs)
- That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
- (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China, New York: Bookman Associates, →OCLC, page 284: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.
2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240: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.
2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847: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.
The factory increased its output this year.
- (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
- (medicine) The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
- (electrical engineering) The amount of power produced by a particular system.
- (computing, electrical engineering) The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.
Derived terms
Translations
production; quantity produced, created, or completed
- Afrikaans: uitset
- Arabic: مُخرَج m
- Bulgarian: произво́дство (bg) n (proizvódstvo), проду́кция (bg) f (prodúkcija)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 輸出 / 输出 (syu1 ceot1)
- Hokkien: 輸出 / 输出 (su-chhut)
- Mandarin: 輸出 / 输出 (zh) (shūchū)
- Czech: výstup (cs) m, produkce (cs) f
- Dutch: productie (nl) f
- Finnish: tuotanto (fi)
- Irish: aschur m, táirgeacht f
- Italian: risultato (it) m, produzione (it) f
- Japanese: 出力 (ja) (shutsuryoku)
- Latin: fructus (la) m
- Macedonian: прои́зводство n (proízvodstvo)
- Maori: huaputa
- Ottoman Turkish: حاصل (hasıl)
- Polish: produkcja (pl) f, urobek (pl) m
- Portuguese: produção (pt) f
- Romanian: producție (ro) f
- Russian: произво́дство (ru) n (proizvódstvo), проду́кция (ru) f (prodúkcija), вы́работка (ru) f (výrabotka)
- Scottish Gaelic: toradh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: проѝзвод m, про̀дукт m
- Roman: proìzvod (sh) m, pròdukt (sh) m
- Spanish: producción (es) f, output m (áutput)
- Swedish: tillverkning (sv) c, produktion (sv) c
- Turkish: çıktı (tr)
- Ukrainian: ви́готовлення n (výhotovlennja), ви́добуток m (výdobutok), проду́кція f (prodúkcija)
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data sent out of the computer
Verb
output (third-person singular simple present outputs, present participle outputting, simple past and past participle output or outputted)
- (economics) To produce, create, or complete.
We output 1400 units last year.
- (computing) 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.
Translations
send data to out of a computer
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English output.
Pronunciation
Noun
output m (plural outputs)
- (computing) output (data sent out)
- output (that which is produced)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Finnish
Etymology
< English output
Pronunciation
Noun
output
(jargon)
- Synonym of tuotos (“output, production”).
- Synonym of tuloste (“output data”).
- Synonym of lähtö (“output terminal”).
Declension
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English output.
Noun
output n (plural outputuri)
- output
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English output
Pronunciation
Noun
output m (plural output)
- (economics) output
- Synonym: producción
- (computing) output
- Synonym: salida
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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