Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

output

/ˈaʊtpʊt/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.43 in modern English

Syllables: out-put
IPA: /ˈaʊtpʊt/

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

verb

To produce, create, or complete.

verb

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.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid and unique to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."
"a six-page output; six pages of output"
"We output 1400 units last year."

Etymology

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

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈaʊtpʊt/
British English: /ˈaʊtpʊt/

Usage

Inflected Forms

outputs (plural) outputs (present, singular) outputting (participle, present) outputted (participle, past) outputted (past)

Derived Forms

multioutput netput nonoutput outputter reoutput

Phrases

cardiac output economic output industrial output input-output section input-output table output area output arm output rating

Frequently Paired Words

input

Synonyms

yield end product outturn turnout output signal production

Questions

How do you pronounce output?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈaʊtpʊt/.
What does output mean?: That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
Where does output come from?: From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.

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