Output \Out"put`\, n.
   1. The amount or quantity of a material or product that is
      produced by a mine, factory, or any system for production
      of commercial goods, such as the amount of coal or ore put
      out from one or more mines, or the quantity of material
      produced by, or turned out from, one or more furnaces or
      mills, in a given time; production.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

   2. The materials, profits, or information produced by any
      system.
      [PJC]

   3. (Physiol.) That which is thrown out as products of the
      metabolic activity of the body; the egesta other than the
      faeces. See Income.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: The output consists of: (a) The respiratory products of
         the lungs, skin, and alimentary canal, consisting
         chiefly of carbonic acid and water with small
         quantities of hydrogen and carbureted hydrogen. (b)
         Perspiration, consisting chiefly of water and salts.
         (c) The urine, which is assumed to contain all the
         nitrogen truly excreted by the body, besides a large
         quantity of saline matters and water. --Foster.
         [1913 Webster]

   4. The power, voltage, or current produced by a device to
      generate or regulate electrical power; as, the power
      supply had a maximum output of 250 milliamps.
      [PJC]

   5. (Computers) The data or information produced by operation
      of a computer program or subroutine for transfer to
      another program or to an external device. The output of
      one program may be used as the input to another program.
      [PJC]

	

	output
     n 1: final product; the things produced [syn: end product]
     2: production of a certain amount [syn: yield]
     3: signal that comes out of an electronic system [syn: output
        signal]
     4: the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created
        (usually within a given period of time); "production was
        up in the second quarter" [syn: yield, production]
     5: what is produced in a given time period [syn: outturn, turnout]
     v : to create or manufacture a specific amount; "the computer is
         outputting the data from the job I'm running"
     [also: outputting, outputted]

	

	113 Moby Thesaurus words for "output":
   ALGOL, COBOL, FORTRAN, achieve, achievement, aftermath,
   alphabetic data, alphanumeric code, angular data, assembler,
   avails, bearing, binary digit, binary scale, binary system, bit,
   box office, bug, bumper crop, byte, command pulses, commands,
   commissions, compiler, computer code, computer language,
   computer program, control signals, controlled quantity,
   correcting signals, create, credit, credits, crop, data,
   disposable income, dividend, dividends, earned income, earnings,
   efficiency, error, error signals, feedback pulses,
   feedback signals, film data, fruit, gain, gains, gate,
   gate receipts, generate, get, gross, gross income, gross receipts,
   harvest, hexadecimal system, income, information, input data,
   input quantity, instructions, intake, machine language, make,
   manufacture, message, multiple messages, net, net income,
   net receipts, noise, numeric data, octal system, oscillograph data,
   output data, output quantity, play, polar data, proceeds, produce,
   product, production, productivity, profit, profits,
   punch-card data, put out, random data, receipt, receipts,
   receivables, rectangular data, reference quantity, result, returns,
   revenue, royalties, ruly English, second crop, signals,
   single messages, take, take-in, takings, throughput, turnout,
   unearned income, unorganized data, vintage, visible-speech data,
   yield

	

	output
     
         Data transferred from a computer system to
        the outside world via some kind of output device.
     
        Opposite: input.
     
        (1997-04-28)