output

Output is to produce, deliver, broadcast or supply something.

(verb)

An example of output is when a TV broadcasts a program.

Output is defined as the act of producing something, the amount of something that is produced or the process in which something is delivered.

(noun)

  1. An example of output is the electricity produced by a power plant.
  2. An example of output is producing 1,000 cases of a product.
  3. An example of output when you deliver information on a disk or tape.

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See output in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

    1. the work done or amount produced by a person, machine, production line, manufacturing plant, etc., esp. over a given period
    2. the act of producing
    1. information, resulting from computer processing, that is delivered to a user, as printout or video display, or transferred to disk or tape
    2. the act or process of delivering or transferring this information
  1. Elec.
    1. the useful voltage, current, or power delivered by amplifiers, generators, receivers, etc. or by a circuit
    2. the terminal where such energy is delivered

adjective

of or relating to computer output

transitive verb output, outputting

to deliver or transfer (computer output)

See output in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. The act or process of producing; production.
  2. a. An amount produced or manufactured during a certain time.
    b. Intellectual or creative production: literary output; artistic output.
  3. a. The energy, power, or work produced by a system.
    b. Computer Science The information produced by a program or process from a specific input.
transitive verb out·put·ted or out·put, out·put·ting, out·puts
To produce or manufacture (something) during a certain time.

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