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output
CIDE DICTIONARY
output, n.
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The materials, profits, or information produced by any system. [PJC]
- That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activity of the body; the egesta other than the fæces. See Income. [1913 Webster]" 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. " [1913 Webster] - The power, voltage, or current produced by a device to generate or regulate electrical power; as, the power supply had a maximum output of 250 milliamps. [PJC]
- 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. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
output, n. & v.
--n.
1 the product of a process, esp. of manufacture, or of mental or artistic work.
2 the quantity or amount of this.
3 the printout, results, etc. supplied by a computer.
4 the power etc. delivered by an apparatus.
5 a place where energy, information, etc. leaves a system.
--v.tr. (-putting; past and past part. -put or -putted)
1 put or send out.
2 (of a computer) supply (results etc.).
--n.
1 the product of a process, esp. of manufacture, or of mental or artistic work.
2 the quantity or amount of this.
3 the printout, results, etc. supplied by a computer.
4 the power etc. delivered by an apparatus.
5 a place where energy, information, etc. leaves a system.
--v.tr. (-putting; past and past part. -put or -putted)
1 put or send out.
2 (of a computer) supply (results etc.).
THESAURUS
output
ALGOL, COBOL, FORTRAN, achieve, achievement, aftermath, alphabetic data, alphanumeric code, angular data, assembler, avails, bearing, binary digit, binary scale, binary system, bit, box office, bug, bumper crop, byte, command pulses, commands, commissions, compiler, computer code, computer language, computer program, control signals, controlled quantity, correcting signals, create, credit, credits, crop, data, disposable income, dividend, dividends, earned income, earnings, efficiency, error, error signals, feedback pulses, feedback signals, film data, fruit, gain, gains, gate, gate receipts, generate, get, gross, gross income, gross receipts, harvest, hexadecimal system, income, information, input data, input quantity, instructions, intake, machine language, make, manufacture, message, multiple messages, net, net income, net receipts, noise, numeric data, octal system, oscillograph data, output data, output quantity, play, polar data, proceeds, produce, product, production, productivity, profit, profits, punch-card data, put out, random data, receipt, receipts, receivables, rectangular data, reference quantity, result, returns, revenue, royalties, ruly English, second crop, signals, single messages, take, take-in, takings, throughput, turnout, unearned income, unorganized data, vintage, visible-speech data, yieldROGET THESAURUS
output
Acquisition
N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.Egress
N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.For further exploring for "output" in Webster Dictionary Online