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Meaning of output | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
ˈaʊtpʊt

Definitions

  1. That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
    countable, uncountable
  3. Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer, or data sent from one program on the computer to another.
    countable, uncountable
  4. The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
    countable, uncountable
  5. The amount of power produced by a particular system.
    countable, uncountable
  6. The terminal through which the data or power is delivered from the source, output terminal.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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