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out⋅put

  [out-poot] noun, verb, -put⋅ted or -put, -put⋅ting.
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–noun
1. the act of turning out; production: the factory's output of cars; artistic output.
2. the quantity or amount produced, as in a given time: to increase one's daily output.
3. the material produced or yield; product.
4. the current, voltage, power, or signal produced by an electrical or electronic circuit or device. Compare input (def. 4).
5. Computers.
a. information in a form suitable for transmission from internal to external units of a computer, or to an outside medium.
b. the process of transferring data from internal storage to an external medium, as paper or microfilm.
6. the power or force produced by a machine.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
7. Computers. to transfer (information) from internal storage to an external medium.
8. to produce; turn out.
Origin:
1855–60; out- + put
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out·put   (out'pŏŏt')   
n.  
  1. The act or process of producing; production.
    1. An amount produced or manufactured during a certain time.
    2. Intellectual or creative production: literary output; artistic output.
    3. The energy, power, or work produced by a system.
    4. Computer Science The information produced by a program or process from a specific input.
    1. The energy, power, or work produced by a system.
    2. Computer Science The information produced by a program or process from a specific input.
tr.v.   out·put·ted or out·put, out·put·ting, out·puts
To produce or manufacture (something) during a certain time.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Output

Out"put`\, n. 1. 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.

2. (Physiol.) That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activity of the body; the egesta other than the f[ae]ces. See Income.

Note: The output consists of: (a) The respiratory products of the lungs, skin, and alimentary canal, consisting chiefly of carbonic acid and water with small quantities of hydrogen and carbureted hydrogen. (b) Perspiration, consisting chiefly of water and salts. (c) The urine, which is assumed to contain all the nitrogen truly excreted by the body, besides a large quantity of saline matters and water. --Foster.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : output
Spanish: producción,
German: die Produktion,
Japanese: 生産高
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output  (n.)
1839, from out and put. Till c.1880, a technical term in the iron and coal trade. The verb is attested from c.1300, originally "to expel;" meaning "to produce" is from 1858.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: out·put
Pronunciation: 'aut-"put
Function: noun
: the amount of energy or matter discharged usually within a specified time by a bodilysystem or organ output> output> —see CARDIAC OUTPUT
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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output out·put (out'p&oobreve;t')
n.
The amount produced, ejected, or excreted by an entity during a specified time.

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output   (out'pt')  Pronunciation Key 
  1. The energy, power, or work produced by a system or device.
  2. The information that a computer produces by processing a specific input.

The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
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output architecture
Data transferred from a computer system to the outside world via some kind of output device.
Opposite: input.
(1997-04-28)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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