Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An amount produced or manufactured during a certain time.
  • noun The energy, power, or work produced by a system.
  • noun Computers The information produced by a program or process from a specific input.
  • noun The act or process of producing; production.
  • noun Intellectual or creative production.
  • transitive verb To produce or manufacture (something) during a certain time.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To put out; exclude.
  • noun 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.
  • noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun 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.
  • noun The materials, profits, or information produced by any system.
  • noun (Physiol.) That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activity of the body; the egesta other than the fæces. See Income.
  • noun The power, voltage, or current produced by a device to generate or regulate electrical power.
  • noun (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 the input to another program.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun economics Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
  • noun computing Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer.
  • verb economics to produce, create, or complete.
  • verb computing to send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
  • noun what is produced in a given time period
  • noun production of a certain amount
  • verb to create or manufacture a specific amount
  • noun signal that comes out of an electronic system
  • noun final product; the things produced

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

out +‎ put.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word output.

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]

    Doom9's Forum colinhunt 2010

  • For e.g. if $1 is defined AND NOT EMPTY, use $1; otherwise, set to "text", enter: output = $ {1-text} echo $output

    nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog 2009

  • /bin/bash output = $ {1-text} [$# - eq 0] & & {echo "Usage: $0 format"; exit 1;} echo "Setting output to $output ..."

    nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog 2009

  • /bin/bash output = $ {1-text} echo "Setting output to $output ..."

    nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog 2009

  • 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, "

    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community ajay_p5 2010

  • 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.

    SeeLight: 2007

  • 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.

    Why I Am Going on the Insulin Pump 2007

  • 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! 2009

  • 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! 2009

  • This time, pushing the input rod will prevent the output rod from being pushed, so the output is the inverse of the input.

    Intro to Rod Logic « The Half-Baked Maker 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.