Output (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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.
  5. Computers.
    • information in a form suitable for transmission from internal to external units of a computer, or to an outside medium.
    • 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 or without object), out·put·ted or out·put, out·put·ting.
  1. to transfer (information) from internal storage to an external medium.
  2. to produce; turn out.
noun
  1. the act of production or manufacture
  2. the amount produced, as in a given period
  3. the material produced, manufactured, yielded, etc
  4. electronics
    • the power, voltage, or current delivered by a circuit or component
    • the point at which the signal is delivered
  5. the power, energy, or work produced by an engine or a system
  6. computing
    • the information produced by a computer
    • the operations and devices involved in producing this information
  7. of or relating to electronic, computer, or other output
verb -puts, -putting, -put or -putted (tr)
  1. to cause (data) to be emitted as output
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