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From out +‎ (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.

output (countable and uncountable, plural outputs)

  1. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
    1. (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
      The factory increased its output this year.
      • 1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China‎[1], New York: Bookman Associates, →OCLC, page 284:
        Output at the Pen-ch'i mine, which produced somewhat under 1 million tons annually during 1942-1944, was around 500,000 tons in 1949.
      • 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:
        It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.
      • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
        Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid and unique to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
    2. (computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.
      a six-page output; six pages of output
    3. (medicine) The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
    4. (electrical engineering) The amount of power produced by a particular system.
    5. (computing, electrical engineering) The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.

production; quantity produced, created, or completed

data sent out of the computer

output (third-person singular simple present outputs, present participle outputting, simple past and past participle **output or outputted)

  1. (economics) To produce, create, or complete.
    We output 1400 units last year.
  2. (computing) To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.
    When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.

produce or create

send data to out of a computer

Unadapted borrowing from English output.

output m (plural outputs, no diminutive)

  1. (computing) output (data sent out)
  2. output (that which is produced)

< English output

output (jargon)

  1. synonym of tuotos (“output, production”)
  2. synonym of tuloste (“output data”)
  3. synonym of lähtö (“output terminal”)

output m (plural outputs)

  1. (computing) output

Unadapted borrowing from English output.

output n (plural outputuri)

  1. output

Unadapted borrowing from English output

output m (plural **output)

  1. (economics) output
    Synonym: producción
  2. (computing) output
    Synonym: salida