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¹output

noun out·put \ˈau̇t-ˌpu̇t\

: the amount of something that is produced by a person or thing

: something (such as power, energy, or information) that is produced by a machine or system

: the place at which information, power, etc., comes out of a machine or system

Full Definition of OUTPUT

: 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

: the act, process, or an instance of producing

: the terminal for the output on an electrical device

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First Known Use of OUTPUT

circa 1858

Related to OUTPUT

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

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

verb

: to produce and send out (something, such as information)

out·put·ted or outputout·put·ting

Full Definition of OUTPUT

transitive verb

: to produce as output

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First Known Use of OUTPUT

1858

Other Computer-Related Terms

adware, flash, kludge, phishing, recursive, router

OUTPUT Defined for Kids

¹output

noun out·put \ˈau̇t-ˌpu̇t\

Definition of OUTPUT for Kids

: something produced <The factory increased steel output.>

: the information produced by a computer

²output

verb

out·put·ted or out·putout·put·ting

Definition of OUTPUT for Kids

: to produce something <Computers output data quickly.>

Medical Dictionary

output

noun out·put \ˈau̇t-ˌpu̇t\

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