output

/ˌaʊtˈpʊt/

/ˈaʊtpʊt/

Other forms: outputs; outputting; outputted

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.

Definitions of output

1. noun

   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
2. noun

   final product; the things produced
   synonyms: end product

   types:

   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

   canon

   the collection of works by a writer or artist that are considered to be authentic

   type of:

   product, production

   an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
3. noun

   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
4. noun

   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
5. noun

   (mathematics) the result or solution of a function that is associated with a single input
   type of:

   quantity

   the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable
6. verb

   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
7. noun

   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