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Dictionary: out·put   (out'pʊt') pronunciation
n.
  1. The act or process of producing; production.
    1. An amount produced or manufactured during a certain time.
    2. Intellectual or creative production: literary output; artistic output.
    1. The energy, power, or work produced by a system.
    2. Computer Science. The information produced by a program or process from a specific input.
tr.v., -put·ted, or -put, -put·ting, -puts.
To produce or manufacture (something) during a certain time.


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(1) Any computer-generated information displayed on screen, printed on paper or in machine readable form, such as disk and tape.

(2) To transfer or transmit from the computer to a peripheral device or communications line.

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Products of a computer system, such as printouts, labels, reports, or list rental selections. Output can be printed on paper, displayed on a cathode-ray tube screen (see cathode-ray tube display), punched onto keypunch cards, written onto magnetic tapes or disks, and so forth. The intended use of the output and the capabilities of the system generating it determine the format.

The amount produced; also, results provided by a computer, as in computer output.

Thesaurus: output
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noun

    The amount or quantity produced: production, yield. See big/small/amount.

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n

Definition: something produced
Antonyms: input


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The transfer or exit of processed or in-process information from a computer to printers, video terminals, and other peripheral devices.

A term used in systems theory and systems models to describe the product of a particular device or physiological process, or the motor response of a person to a particular situation.

The yield or total of anything produced by any functional system of the body.

  • energy o. — the energy a body is able to manifest in work or activity.
  • stroke o. — the amount of blood ejected by each ventricle at each beat of the heart.
  • tube o. — the output of an x-ray tube usually quoted in milliamps, the amount of current supplied to the cathode filament and the determining influence in the quantity of x-rays produced.
  • urinary o. — the amount of urine secreted by the kidneys. See also fluid balance.

Terminal at which a component, circuit or piece of equipment delivers current, voltage or power.


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Output is the term denoting either an exit or changes which exit a system and which activate/modify a process. It is an abstract concept, used in the modeling, system(s) design and system(s) exploitation.

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Types of output

In control theory

In control theory, the outputs of a system are what can be measured. Specifically, outputs are differentiated from states.

In engineering

In engineering the term output can refer to:

  1. The power or work output of a machine.
  2. An observable output, such as distance moved or velocity, of a mechanical system.

In equity theory

In equity theory, output is the benefits that an employee receives, including money, perquisites, power, status, fame or variety.

In human-computer interaction

In human–computer interaction, output is information produced by the computer program and perceived by the user. The kinds of output the program produces, and the kinds of input the program accepts, define the user interface of the program. In this context, feedback and output are often used interchangeably. However, output tends to refer specifically to explicit output, something that is intentionally provided for the user, whereas feedback also encompasses byproducts of operation that happen to contain information (see low-key feedback).

In information processing

In information processing, output is the process of transmitting information or the transmitted information itself. The output of one process may well form the input for another information processor. Essentially, output is any data exiting a computer system. This could be in the form of printed paper, audio, video. In the medical industry this might include CT scans or x-rays. Typically in computing, data is entered through various forms (input) into a computer, the data is often manipulated, and then information is presented to a human (output).

Macroeconomics

In Macroeconomics, output is the produced goods and services in an economy. A distinction is drawn between Gross Output and Net output.

In telecommunications

In telecommunication, the term output can refer to:

  1. Information retrieved from a functional unit or from a network, usually after some processing.
  2. An output state, or sequence of states.
  3. Pertaining to a device, process, or channel involved in the production of data by a computer or by any of its components.[1]

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - produktion, udbytte, ydelse, uddata
v. tr. - udlæse

Nederlands (Dutch)
productie, vermogen, output, uitvoer, uitvoeren

Français (French)
n. - (Comm, Ind) rendement, production, (Électron, Mécan) puissance, signal, (Comput) (données) de sortie, output, production (d'un écrivain, d'un compositeur), (Radio, TV) production
v. tr. - (Comput) sortir (des données, des résultats)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Produktion, Förderung, Fördermenge, Ertrag, Ausgang, Leistung
v. - (Bergbau) fördern

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (συνολική) παραγωγή, προϊόν, απόδοση

Italiano (Italian)
produzione, capacità, risultato

Português (Portuguese)
n. - produção (f), saída (f), potência (f)

Русский (Russian)
производство, производительность, выход

Español (Spanish)
n. - producción, rendimiento, potencia, capacidad, salida
v. tr. - producir, rendir

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - produktion, tillverkning, uteffekt, utdata

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
输出, 生产量, 产品, 输出信息, 生产, 使出

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 輸出, 生產量, 產品, 輸出資訊
v. tr. - 生產, 輸出, 使出

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 생산, 출력, 배설물
v. tr. - 정보를 출력하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 産出, 生産高, 産出物, 発電力, アウトプット
v. - 出力する, 産出する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نتاج‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תפוקה, פלט, תוצרת, מקום היציאה של התוצרת מהמערכת‬
v. tr. - ‮פלט, סיפק תוצאות (מחשב)‬


 
 

 

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