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output

noun
/ˈaʊtpʊt/

Etymology

From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.

  1. derived from *bud-✻ — “to shoot, sprout”
  2. inherited from *putōną✻ — “to stick, stab”
  3. inherited from *putōn✻
  4. inherited from putian
  5. inherited from putten
  6. compounded as output — “out + put”

Definitions

  1. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a…

    That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.

    • The factory increased its output this year.
    • Output at the Pen-ch'i mine, which produced somewhat under 1 million tons annually during 1942-1944, was around 500,000 tons in 1949.
    • It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.

  2. To produce, create, or complete.

    • We output 1400 units last year.

  3. To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or…

    To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.

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

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Derived

cardiac output, economic output, industrial output, input-output section, input-output table, multioutput, netput, nonoutput, output area, output arm, output rating, outputter, reoutput

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at output. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at output. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at output

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA