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OWTP-ut/ˈaʊtpʊt/

Output is how much is produced: factory output, agricultural output, research output. Production is a close twin; input is what goes in; yield is often crops or returns. In speech, how much they produce is enough. Uncountable in many economic uses. Do not use output for a single handmade gift unless you are joking, and in computing output is what a program produces.

Meaning

The amount of something a person, machine, or industry produces.

Examples

• “Factory output fell during the strike.”
• “Industrial output shrank in the quarter after the strikes.”
• “The unit’s research output is measured in papers, not in teaching hours.”

Good to know

factory / economic output (often uncountable). Close: production. Opposite direction: input. Computing: a program’s output. Crops: yield.

Near in meaning

production

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