output
noun
out·put
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Definition of output
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
: something produced: such as
a
: mineral, agricultural, or industrial production
steel output
b
: mental or artistic production
literary output
c
: the amount produced by a person in a given time
d
: power or energy produced or delivered by a machine or system (as for storage or for conversion in kind or in characteristics)
generator output solar X-ray output
e
: the information produced by a computer
2
: the act, process, or an instance of producing
3
: the terminal for the output on an electrical device
output
verb
outputted
or output;
outputting
Definition of output (Entry 2 of 2)
: to produce as output
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Synonyms for output
Synonyms: Noun
affair, fruit, handiwork, labor, produce, product, production, thing, work, yield
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Examples of output in a Sentence
Noun
stars with large energy outputs The computer's output is shown on this screen. outputs of up to 400 watts the television's video and audio outputsVerb
Computers output data very quickly.
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Already, American farmers see their output languishing in the face of tariffs that make products from other nations cheaper and more competitive. — David A. Andelman For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, "Trump is taking us back to depression-era trade policy," 30 Aug. 2019 Puris’ factory in Dawson, Minn., will double its output as a result, Cargill said Wednesday in a statement. — Bloomberg, Twin Cities, "Agribusiness giant Cargill raises bet on plant-protein craze," 28 Aug. 2019 The Norsemen’s 34-20 win over University City represented their highest scoring output in nearly 3 years. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Week 1: Prep football notable stories, performances," 24 Aug. 2019 Its output was less than one-third that of Guangdong province, the manufacturing powerhouse that abuts Hong Kong. — Washington Post, "Rust-belt China looks abroad as economy slows, tariffs bite," 21 Aug. 2019 Accenture Environmental pillar score: 92.6 The consulting giant has claimed substantial successes in reducing its own environmental footprint: The company says its per-employee carbon output has dropped 52% since 2007. — Fortune Editors, Fortune, "The Change the World Sustainability All Stars," 19 Aug. 2019 To support prices, Saudi Arabia has brokered production cuts by the OPEC cartel of oil-producers and slashed its output by 7% from December to June. — The Economist, "Saudi Aramco debuts in an earnings call," 15 Aug. 2019 Its high output allows for wines like the popular Iconoclast red blend to start around $7.99 — a value compared to bottles from smaller boutique Texas producers that cost several times that amount. — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, "Bunny Becker, Becker Vineyards co-founder, died Monday," 7 Aug. 2019 The company aims to increase its oil output to 2.7 million barrels a day by 2024 and will invest 58 billion pesos, or three billion dollars in its refineries this year, according to Bloomberg. — Fox News, "Mexican oil company offers employees 'healthy incentive' bonus for weight loss, report says," 3 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
The system outputs S-Video, which is found on barely any contemporary TVs and looks pretty bad, or composite, which is found on a few more TVs but looks even worse. — Sam Byford, The Verge, "This expensive adapter makes the Nintendo 64 look good on modern TVs," 7 Aug. 2019 Both cameras have hyperlapse features (i.e. stabilized time-lapse video), but the Osmo Action can only output them at 2.7K30 while the Hero7 Black’s hyperlapse (called TimeWarp, again with the gimmicky names) goes to a full 4K30. — Brent Rose, The Verge, "DJI Osmo Action review: giving GoPro real competition," 5 Aug. 2019 That means taking input from one type of AI algorithm but formatting its output so that it's understood by another—reading spikes and outputting data, or the opposite. — John Timmer, Ars Technica, "One chip to rule them all: It natively runs all types of AI software," 31 July 2019 Alan Turing showed that no computer program can decide whether any other possible program will eventually terminate and output an answer or get stuck in an infinite loop. — Quanta Magazine, "Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer," 21 Apr. 2015 Presumably media will output at 8K, but few games will hit that resolution natively. — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, "Microsoft's next-gen Xbox 'Project Scarlett' console packs Ryzen, Radeon Navi, SSDs, and ray-tracing," 9 June 2019 To calculate the graph Laplacian, first imagine a graph and also a function on that graph that outputs a value at each point. — Quanta Magazine, "The Tricky Translation of Mathematical Ideas," 28 June 2017 The new iPad Pros are also rumored to include a USB-C port that can output 4K HDR video to an external display. — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, "iPad Pro rumors: 4K HDR video output over USB-C, flexible Face ID, and more," 9 Oct. 2018 Instead, the iPad Pros support the USB-C / HDMI and DisplayPort alternate mode specs for outputting to a display. — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, "Adding USB-C to the iPad isn’t enough to fix Apple’s messy port strategy," 31 Oct. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'output.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for output
output
noun
English Language Learners Definition of output
(Entry 1 of 2)
: the amount of something that is produced by a person or thing
: something (such as power, energy, or information) that is produced by a machine or system
: the place at which information, power, etc., comes out of a machine or system
output
verbEnglish Language Learners Definition of output (Entry 2 of 2)
: to produce and send out (something, such as information)
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output
noun
out·put
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Kids Definition of output
(Entry 1 of 2)
1
: something produced
The factory increased steel output.
2
: the information produced by a computer
output
verb
outputted
or output;
outputting