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output

If your factory transforms steel into train wheels, your factory's output––what it produces––is train wheels. A country's output is the total quantity of goods it produces.

The word input is the opposite of output, but only in the sense of the process––if bananas, milk, and ice cream are the input, the output is a milkshake. But you don't usually talk about input in the aggregate, as something you measure over time for a factory, a company, or a country.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: output

1
 nv
production of a certain amount
to create or manufacture a specific amount
2
 n
signal that comes out of an electronic system
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: output
1

n production of a certain amount

Synonyms:
yield
Types:
crop, harvest
the yield from plants in a single growing season
fruitage
the yield of fruit
Type of:
production
(economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale

n final product; the things produced

Synonyms:
end product
Types:
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crop
the output of something in a season
body of work, oeuvre, work
the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
turning
the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe
writing
(usually plural) the collected work of an author
Type of:
product, production
an artifact that has been created by someone or some process

n what is produced in a given time period

Synonyms:
outturn, turnout
Types:
throughput
output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time)
Type of:
product, production
an artifact that has been created by someone or some process

n the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)

Synonyms:
production, yield
Types:
pick, picking
the quantity of a crop that is harvested
Type of:
indefinite quantity
an estimated quantity

v to create or manufacture a specific amount

“the computer is outputting the data from the job I'm running”
Type of:
create, make, produce
create or manufacture a man-made product
2

n signal that comes out of an electronic system

Synonyms:
output signal
Types:
printout
the output of a computer in printed form
read-out, readout
the output of a computer in readable form
Type of:
sign, signal, signaling
any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
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