output

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. countableuncountableeconomicsProduction; quantity produced, created, or completed.

      The factory increased its output this year.

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      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.

      1956, Yuan-li Wu, An Economic Survey of Communist China, New York: Bookman Associates, →OCLC, page 284

      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.

      2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240

      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.

      2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847

   2. countableuncountablecomputingData 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. countableuncountablemedicineThe flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
   4. countableuncountablebusinessThe amount of power produced by a particular system.
   5. countableuncountablebusinessThe terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.

present singular third person outputs · participle present outputting · participle past outputted · past outputted

1. economicsTo produce, create, or complete.

   We output 1400 units last year.

2. computingTo 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.