Outputs

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A series of results that are generated through an operation or process
2. The outcomes obtained as a consequence of executing a particular task or operation
3. The set of outputs derived from applying a method or procedure to input data

Etymology: "Outputs" is simply the plural of "output," so the history belongs to the singular. "Output" is built from the words "out" and "put." Its origin lies in the phrase "put out," meaning to produce or yield something, and the noun was formed by turning that verb phrase into a noun. The result is a compound formed in English itself, rather than a loan from another language. Over time the noun came to name whatever is produced by a process, whether that is goods from a factory, power from a machine, or results from a computer. The plain Anglo-Saxon building blocks, "out" and "put," give the word its literal sense of something put out into the world.

Synonyms: results, productions