output

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtpʊt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʊtpʊt

output (countable and uncountable, plural outputs)

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

      The factory increased its output this year.

      • 1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China‎^[1], 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.

   2. (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

   3. (medicine) The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
   4. (electrical engineering) The amount of power produced by a particular system.
   5. (computing, electrical engineering) The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.

output (third-person singular simple present outputs, present participle outputting, simple past and past participle output or outputted)

1. (economics) To produce, create, or complete.

   We output 1400 units last year.

2. (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.

• put out, put-out, putout

Unadapted borrowing from English output.

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: out‧put

output m (plural outputs)

1. (computing) output (data sent out)
2. output (that which is produced)

• uitvoer

• input

< English output

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯tput/, [ˈɑ̝u̯t̪put̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑutput

output (jargon)

1. synonym of tuotos (“output, production”)
2. synonym of tuloste (“output data”)
3. synonym of lähtö (“output terminal”)

Unadapted borrowing from English output.

output n (plural outputuri)

1. output

Unadapted borrowing from English output

• IPA^(key): /ˈaudput/ [ˈau̯ð̞.put̪]
• Rhymes: -audput
• Syllabification: out‧put

output m (plural output)

1. (economics) output

   Synonym: producción

2. (computing) output

   Synonym: salida

• 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.

• “output”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024