Output

Origin

out + put.

Full definition of output

Noun

1. (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
• 2013-08-03, Boundary problems, Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid 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. The factory increased its output this year.
3. (computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer.
   a six page output

Related terms

• input

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.When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.

Anagrams

• putout, put out