output

Etymology

out + put.

noun

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.
      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
   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.

verb

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.