Other forms: outputs
Output is what a system or a worker produces. Increase output, total output, the output of the factory.
In economics it is the measured quantity produced, and output per hour is the standard definition of productivity. In computing, output is what comes out of a program, against input — and the two words are the pair that structures most of how machines are described. In electronics, an output is a socket or a signal level. Note that output is both noun and verb, though the verb is technical.
1nounoutputWhat a system or a worker produces.
“The factory doubled its output after new machines were installed.”
2nounprogramWhat comes out of a program or a device.
“Check the program's output to make sure the numbers are correct.”
output is what is produced.
Out plus put, made as a noun from the phrasal verb put out. Input, upset and outlay are formed the same way, and English has produced hundreds of them.
From out + put; nominalisation of put out.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA