OUTPUT (outputted, outputting)

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Irregular inflected forms: outputted    , outputting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does output mean? 

• OUTPUT (noun)
  The noun OUTPUT has 5 senses:

1. final product; the things produced

2. production of a certain amount

3. signal that comes out of an electronic system

4. the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)

5. what is produced in a given time period

  Familiarity information: OUTPUT used as a noun is common.

• OUTPUT (verb)
  The verb OUTPUT has 1 sense:

1. to create or manufacture a specific amount

  Familiarity information: OUTPUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTPUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Final product; the things produced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

end product; output

Hypernyms ("output" is a kind of...):

product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "output"):

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)

Derivation:

output (to create or manufacture a specific amount)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Production of a certain amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

output; yield

Hypernyms ("output" is a kind of...):

production ((economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "output"):

crop; harvest (the yield from plants in a single growing season)

Derivation:

output (to create or manufacture a specific amount)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Signal that comes out of an electronic system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

output; output signal

Hypernyms ("output" is a kind of...):

sign; signal; signaling (any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "output"):

printout (the output of a computer in printed form)

read-out; readout (the output of a computer in readable form)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

output; production; yield

Context example:

production was up in the second quarter

Hypernyms ("output" is a kind of...):

indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "output"):

pick; picking (the quantity of a crop that is harvested)

Sense 5

Meaning:

What is produced in a given time period

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

output; outturn; turnout

Hypernyms ("output" is a kind of...):

product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "output"):

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))

Derivation:

output (to create or manufacture a specific amount)

• OUTPUT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they output    ... he / she / it outputs   
Past simple: output    / outputted   
Past participle: output    / outputted   
-ing form: outputting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To create or manufacture a specific amount

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

the computer is outputting the data from the job I'm running

Hypernyms (to "output" is one way to...):

create; make; produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

output (production of a certain amount)

output (final product; the things produced)

output (what is produced in a given time period)

 Context examples 

Mediated through myocardial beta-1-adrenergic receptors, dopamine increase heart rate and force, thereby increasing cardiac output.

(Dopamine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

As a result, it leads to a positive inotropic effect and increases in cardiac output.

(Dobutamine Tartrate, NCI Thesaurus)

This leads to an increase in heart rate and force and results in an increase in cardiac output.

(Dobutamine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Doxapram hydrochloride may also improve cardiac output probably due to an increased release of catecholamines.

(Doxapram Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent also decreases sympathetic output centrally and blocks renin secretion.

(Esmolol Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

This results in three major outputs; cell cycle arrest, cellular senescence or apoptosis.

(p53 Signaling Pathway KEGG, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome.

(Health Services Research, NCI Thesaurus)

Failure of device to generate a correctly-shaped pacing output, for example, a waveform that is too wide.

(Failure to Spike Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with the inability of device and/or device components to achieve successful depolarization and contraction of a cardiac chamber caused by a pacemaker output pulse.

(Capturing Issue Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

Mediated through myocardial beta-1 adrenergic receptors, dopamine increase heart rate and force, thereby increasing cardiac output.

(Dopamine, NCI Thesaurus)