the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time)
<noun.quantity> production was up in the second quarter
what is produced in a given time period
<noun.artifact> [ verb ]
to create or manufacture a specific amount
<verb.creation> the computer is outputting the data from the job I'm running
Output \Out"put`\, n. 1. 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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
2. The materials, profits, or information produced by any system. [PJC]
3. (Physiol.) That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activity of the body; the egesta other than the f[ae]ces. See {Income}.
Note: The output consists of: (a) The respiratory products of the lungs, skin, and alimentary canal, consisting chiefly of carbonic acid and water with small quantities of hydrogen and carbureted hydrogen. (b) Perspiration, consisting chiefly of water and salts. (c) The urine, which is assumed to contain all the nitrogen truly excreted by the body, besides a large quantity of saline matters and water. --Foster.
4. 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. [PJC]
5. (Computers) 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. [PJC]
The company didn't say how much extra production there would be but dealers estimated that it would amount to an additional 150,000 ounces, which would bring the company's annual output to 1.4 million ounces.
But Manville executive Mr. Stephens said the Denver-based company's research indicates that the output of one-and-a-half new paper machines will be needed to supply demand for high-quality paperboard for food and beverage containers by 1995.
Saudi Arabia maintains the largest share at about a quarter of OPEC's total output.
U.S. industrial production surged 0.7 percent in April as a boom in demand for business equipment helped give the country the biggest increase in factory output in six months, the government said Monday.
Cominco Ltd., one of the world's largest producers of zinc and lead, said it is reducing zinc output 25% at its smelter in Trail, British Columbia, for 10 weeks of maintenance work.
Few if any forecasters expect output to fall.
Growth in Latin America is projected at only 10 percent because output is expected to fall in Brazil.
It began production in mid-1988 and produced 100,000 ounces of gold a year between 1989 and 1991 - a tenth of Chile's total output.
The new ceiling is 1 million barrels per day higher than the current level but below the estimated daily output in recent weeks of about 21 million barrels.
It hopes output from Amino will serve the domestic Polish market as well as other east and central European countries.
Manufacturing industry's order books are at their best levels since mid-1990 and manufacturers expect to increase output over the next four months.
The output shortfall compared with trend is less than it was in the last two recessions in five of the G7 countries.
With hourly wages in 1992 65 per cent of the west German level, but output per worker at only 40 per cent, it is unlikely to enjoy one.
"The absolute increases in manufacturing productivity and output don't support the case for a rapidly eroding industrial base.
Gross domestic product is the total market value of the country's output of goods and services.
Ford Motor Co.'s total output dipped 4% to 287,537 vehicles.
OPEC in recent weeks has been making some involuntary reductions in output.
Separately, the Federal Reserve Board said that manufacturing output was unchanged last month, as the overall output of the nation's factories, mines and utilities rose just 0.2%.
Separately, the Federal Reserve Board said that manufacturing output was unchanged last month, as the overall output of the nation's factories, mines and utilities rose just 0.2%.
As a result of Romania's severe energy shortage, however, there have been big cuts in aluminium output over the past three years.
Against a backdrop of Iraqi threats to punish cheaters, OPEC ministers meet this week to work out a strategy for restraining output and pushing up oil prices.
It would cut the county's corn output to three million bushels from 8.3 million last year.
Mr. Conger attributed the expanded gold output to increasing production from the McLaughlin mine in northern California, which opened in April 1985.
That level of output sent world petroleum prices skidding.
Oil futures traders focused on the hour-to-hour developments of the strike by 4,000 of Norway's oil workers that began late Saturday and shut down Norway's total crude oil output of 1,630,000 barrels a day.
The news helped to support yesterday's price advance. According to GNI, the fall in Brazilian output will leave consumer stocks at the end of this season 25 per cent below the 1990-91 peak of 19.7m bags.
After the transaction, Bethlehem Steel, Bethlehem, Pa., will own a 37.5% interest and take 75% of the output.
As previously reported, the oil ministers resolved the output issue by agreeing to maintain it at 22.3 million barrels a day, the current ceiling, through September with the idea of taking a new look at it then.
The GNP is the nation's total output of goods and services and its braodest measure of economic health.
Another Soviet analyst, Vladimir Tikhonov, said his country's agricultural statistics substantially overstate Soviet food output. Meat production is barely half the officially reported figure, he said.