output
//ˈaʊtpʊt//
formalForms
- Plural
- outputs
- present (v1)
- output
- past (v2)
- output
- past participle (v3)
- output
- present participle
- outputting
- 3rd person singular
- outputs
Definitions
1.That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
- 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.
1.To produce, create, or complete.
- 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.
- When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4127
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.