Output vs. Outcome — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Output and Outcome
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Output
The amount of something produced by a person, machine, or industry
Output from the mine ceased in May
Efficiency can lead to higher outputs
Outcome
An end result; a consequence.
Output
A place where power or information leaves a system.
Outcome
That which is produced or occurs as a result of an event or process.
A quality automobile is the outcome of the work of skilled engineers and thousands of workers.
Output
(of a computer or other device) produce, deliver, or supply (data)
You can output the image directly to a video recording system
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Outcome
(probability theory) The result of a random trial. An element of a sample space.
Three is a possible outcome of tossing a six-sided die.
Output
An amount produced or manufactured during a certain time.
Outcome
(education) The anticipated or desired results or evidence of a learning experience often used in the phrase learning outcomes.
The outcomes of this course are outlined in your syllabus.
Output
The energy, power, or work produced by a system.
Outcome
The scoreline; the result.
Output
(Computers) The information produced by a program or process from a specific input.
Outcome
That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.
All true literature, all genuine poetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thought.
Output
The act or process of producing; production.
Outcome
Something that results;
He listened for the results on the radio
Output
Intellectual or creative production
Literary output.
Artistic output.
Outcome
A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon;
The magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise
His decision had depressing consequences for business
He acted very wise after the event
Output
To produce or manufacture (something) during a certain time.
Output
That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
Output
(economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
The factory increased its output this year.
Output
(computing) 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.
A six-page output; six pages of output
Output
(medicine) The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.
Output
(electrical engineering) The amount of power produced by a particular system.
Output
(economics) To produce, create, or complete.
We output 1400 units last year.
Output
(computing) To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.
When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.
Output
The amount or quantity of a material or product that is produced by a mine, factory, or any system for production of commercial goods, such as the amount of coal or ore put out from one or more mines, or the quantity of material produced by, or turned out from, one or more furnaces or mills, in a given time; production.
Output
The materials, profits, or information produced by any system.
Output
That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activity of the body; the egesta other than the fæces. See Income.
Output
The power, voltage, or current produced by a device to generate or regulate electrical power; as, the power supply had a maximum output of 250 milliamps.
Output
The data or information produced by operation of a computer program or subroutine for transfer to another program or to an external device. The output of one program may be used as the input to another program.
Output
Final product; the things produced
Output
Production of a certain amount
Output
Signal that comes out of an electronic system
Output
The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time);
Production was up in the second quarter
Output
What is produced in a given time period
Output
To create or manufacture a specific amount;
The computer is outputting the data from the job I'm running
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