output

¹out·put

noun \ˈau̇t-ˌpu̇t\

Definition of OUTPUT

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

Examples of OUTPUT

1. stars with large energy outputs
2. The computer's output is shown on this screen.
3. outputs of up to 400 watts
4. the television's video and audio outputs

First Known Use of OUTPUT

circa 1858

Related to OUTPUT

Synonyms

affair, fruit, handiwork, labor, product, produce, production, thing, work, yield

Related 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 (also side reaction), spin-off

Other Electrical Engineering Terms

feedback, fuse, incandescent, noise, resonance

Rhymes with OUTPUT

afoot, barefoot, bigfoot, birthroot, Blackfoot, board foot, claw-foot, clubfoot, cocksfoot, coltsfoot, crow's-foot, cube root, enroot, forefoot, hard put, hotfoot, input, kaput, on foot, outfoot, prop root, Rajput, redroot, shot put, snakeroot, splayfoot, square root, squawroot, taproot, throughput, trench foot, uproot, webfoot

²output

transitive verb

out·put·ted or outputout·put·ting

Definition of OUTPUT

: to produce as output

Examples of OUTPUT

1. Computers output data very quickly.

First Known Use of OUTPUT

1858

Other Computer-Related Terms

adware, flash, kludge, phishing, recursive, router

out·put

noun \ˈau̇t-ˌpu̇t\   (Medical Dictionary)

Medical Definition of OUTPUT

: the amount of energy or matter discharged usually within a specified time by a bodily system or organ <renal output> <urinary output>—see cardiac output