Outturn

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The resultant quantity or quality that emerges from a specific process or undertaking signifies an output often evaluated financially
2. It indicates the level of productivity or efficiency achieved through the use of resources in an operation
3. The final result produced from a particular activity or process is often assessed in terms of its effectiveness or success

Etymology: The word is simply "out" plus "turn", and the "turn" part has a longer journey than the "out" part. Its ancestor is Latin "tornare", meaning to turn on a lathe, which came from Greek "tornos", a tool for turning wood or metal in a circle. Old French took that Latin verb as "torner", English borrowed it as a verb in the Middle English period, and the familiar "turn" then lent its shape to phrases of its own. "Outturn" is the English compound made by adding "out" to "turn", in the sense of something turned out or produced. It is a noun, and it describes the total amount that a factory, mine, field or process has yielded over a period. Here "out" carries its sense of something coming forth from a place, so the whole word reads as what has been turned out.

Synonyms: output, production, yield