The result of a process that has been successfully completed. There are four (4) general types of output: software, hardware, processed materials, and services.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
output (noun)1.
something produced as
a) mineral, agricultural, or industrial production - steel output
b) mental or artistic production - literary output
c) the amount produced by a person in a given time
d) power or energy produced or delivered by a machine or system (as for storage or for conversion in kind or in characteristics) - generator output solar X-ray output
e) the information produced by a computer
2.
the act, process, or an instance of producing
3.
the terminal for the output on an electrical device
transitive verb
to produce as output
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
output (noun)something produced by physical or intellectual effort
SYNONYMS:
affair, fruit, handiwork, labor, output, produce, production, thing, work, yieldRELATED WORDS:
article, commodity, entry, object; goods, line, merchandise, wares; handcraft, handicraft; aftereffect, aftermath, conclusion, consequence, corollary, development, effect, issue, outcome, result, resultant, sequel, sequence, upshot; by-product, derivative, offshoot, offspring, outgrowth, residual, side effect ( side reaction), spin-offOutput (Wikipedia)
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Output may refer to:
- The information produced by a computer, see Input/output
- An output state of a system, see state (computer science)
- Output (economics), the amount of goods and services produced
- Gross output in economics, the value of net output or GDP plus intermediate consumption
- Net output in economics, the gross revenue from production less the value of goods and services
- Power (physics) or Work (physics) output of a machine
- Dependent variable of a function, in mathematics
- Output (album)
Output (Wiktionary)
English
Etymology
From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaʊtpʊt/
- Rhymes: -aʊtpʊt
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.
- (computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on
- (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
Output