Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of producing; production.
- n. An amount produced or manufactured during a certain time.
- n. Intellectual or creative production: literary output; artistic output.
- n. The energy, power, or work produced by a system.
- n. Computer Science The information produced by a program or process from a specific input.
- v. To produce or manufacture (something) during a certain time.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To put out; exclude.
- n. The quantity of material put out or produced within a specified time, as coal from a pit or iron from a furnace, etc.; in general, production; amount or rate of production.
- n. In physiology, the waste eliminated from the body by the lungs, skin, and kidneys, not including that from the bowels: opposed to income, material taken into the system.
Wiktionary
- n. economics Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
- n. computing Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer.
- v. economics to produce, create, or complete.
- v. computing to send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The amount or quantity of a material or product that is produced by a mine, factory, or any system for production of commercial goods, such as the amount of coal or ore put out from one or more mines, or the quantity of material produced by, or turned out from, one or more furnaces or mills, in a given time; production.
- n. The materials, profits, or information produced by any system.
- n. (Physiol.) That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activity of the body; the egesta other than the fæces. See Income.
- n. The power, voltage, or current produced by a device to generate or regulate electrical power.
- n. (Computers) The data or information produced by operation of a computer program or subroutine for transfer to another program or to an external device. The
output of one program may be used as theinput to another program.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
- n. what is produced in a given time period
- n. production of a certain amount
- v. to create or manufacture a specific amount
- n. signal that comes out of an electronic system
- n. final product; the things produced
Etymologies
- out + put. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“AssumeFPS ( "ntsc_film") set input = D: \test. avs set output = D: \imgseqtest_v. mkv set ref = 5 set bframes = 5 set x264Path = D: \x264. exe % x264Path% % input% -- preset fast -- ref % ref% -- bframes % bframes% -- output % output% avs [warning]: converting input clip to YV12 avs [info]”
“For e.g. if $1 is defined AND NOT EMPTY, use $1; otherwise, set to "text", enter: output = $ {1-text} echo $output”
“/bin/bash output = $ {1-text} echo "Setting output to $output ...”
“/bin/bash output = $ {1-text} [$# - eq 0] & & {echo "Usage: $0 format"; exit 1;} echo "Setting output to $output ...”
“Perl Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) #! usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $input = 'file1. txt'; my $input2 = 'file2. csv'; my $output = 'output. txt'; our (@aj1, @aj2, @aj3, @aj4); open (INFILE, ”
“Like the body, the pump's basal insulin output is done with the same sort of short-acting insulin that the bolus output is made with.”
“To those who apparently don't know much about paintball, the output is adjustable, plus the fact that if an 8-year-old isn't damaged, I'm pretty sure a live raccoon would appreciate it better than a dead one.”
I've been thinking of using a paint ball gun for coyote hunting!
“This time, pushing the input rod will prevent the output rod from being pushed, so the output is the inverse of the input.”
“As to the financial question, I do think that limiting your output is a mistake, no matter who you are.”
Jonathan Coulton Answers Your Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
“We brainstorm to overcome issues and mitigate risks, and our output is a summary startup business plan.”
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webdev
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
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a, abbr, acronym, address, applet, area, article, aside, audio, b, base, basefont and 108 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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to avoid "information"
data, datum, results, feedback, knowledge, lore, understanding, sense, thought, belief, advice, propaganda and 34 more...
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Outta Here
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