How to Use output in a Sentence

output

1 of 2 noun
  • The computer's output is shown on this screen.
  • And who would own the output: the prompter of the A.I. or the artist whose style was the inspiration?
    John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • This is the slowest rate of growth in CO2 output since the Great Depression.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • As their stars have risen, so has their output—artists there have released three of the best mixtapes of the year.
    Orlando Mendiola, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
  • So much of our creative journeys are the output, right?
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 18 Sep. 2023
  • To keep the parts count low, the two input/output ports of the Macintosh were to be serial.
    IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
  • This speaks to the fact that there’s been a lot of output as a human trying to raise two small other humans.
    Hazlitt, 28 June 2023
  • Four such games have occurred in the last two years, while Dončić’s 73-point game is tied for the fourth-highest output ever.
    Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • What Could Be Better The steam output seems to decrease over time, even on the turbo setting.
    Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2024
  • While this isn’t the cheapest service, the quality output is well worth it.
    Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The magic of the Beatles, and the thing that most sets them apart most from their ’60s peers, is the tidiness of their cultural output.
    Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The nation's emissions output is equivalent to triple the total of the U.S., which is the world's second-largest emitter.
    Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • And there is a spectrum of usability of those outputs right now.
    Jackie Snow, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Plug a number into a function, then use the output as your next input.
    Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The expansion is expected to raise that output by about 50%.
    J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • In just two innings the Sycamores had already equaled Friday’s hit total of four and surpassed its run output.
    Randy Jennings, The Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2023
  • Often, the cost of a strike is portrayed in terms of its effect on a state or nation’s economic output.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2023
  • If your output wasn’t laser-focussed, the system would quietly shunt you away.
    Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Its two sets of banana plugs on the back give you two channels of passive stereo output, and a subwoofer connection rounds that out.
    Wes Davis, The Verge, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The energy agency will buy the output from RWE in a 20-year power purchase agreement.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • That’s about the noise output your lawnmower or power tool produces.
    Amy Paturel, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2024
  • With his 2022 output, Jones is more than halfway to joining them after one season.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 15 July 2023
  • His prodigious output, however, is not matched by the size of his readership.
    Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the earliest signs of acute kidney injury are swelling in your legs and ankles, fatigue, and decreased urine output.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Rutte also faces the fury of Dutch farmers over the government’s goal of halving nitrogen output by 2030.
    Time, 10 July 2023
  • Again, the situation in the Middle East could cause oil prices to remain volatile throughout the rest of the year as roughly a third of the world’s oil output comes from that region, Gladden says.
    Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The growth in factory output might be driven by strong exports demand.
    Laura He, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Enbridge argues that thousands of jobs and billions in economic output will be lost if Line 5 is shut down.
    Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The majority of output from Hollywood is made up of TV shows and movies that require actors.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The Saudis can also ramp up output at short notice, to more than 12 million barrels a day, if the world needs it—something no other country can do.
    Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
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output

2 of 2 verb
  • Computers output data very quickly.
  • Either of the two USB-C ports can output up to 100 watts.
    Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2022
  • One of the ports can output 5V at up to 7.5W for more power-hungry devices.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • If your charging adapter can output that, that's great.
    WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Its battery lasts up to two weeks off a charge, and has a sharp, bright OLED screen that can output up to 1000-nit brightness.
    Andrew Williams, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • When in flight, the frame spins at high speed allowing the LEDs attached to it to act as a display outputting video.
    Matthew Humphries, Fox News, 9 May 2017
  • Instead, the firefighters were forced to use the fire hoses on the ship, which output less water and pressure than they were used to, the source said.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 11 July 2023
  • The iPhone 14 Pro will still output 12-megapixel photos in such a scenario.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The specific technologies vary in small ways, but the key is that the TVs output three colors: red, green, and blue.
    Adam Rogers, WIRED, 4 July 2019
  • Games that support native 1440p will output at just that.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 28 July 2022
  • Heavier bodies have to output more power to climb hills.
    Ella Foote, Outside Online, 1 June 2021
  • All variants output up to 2.4 kilowatts from a variety of outlets in the frunk, cabin, and bed.
    Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 2 June 2022
  • The software also outputs a line of best fit, which describes the general trend of your data in the line below.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The new camera is still outputting 12-megapixel stills, but now has a bigger sensor to fill that frame with more detail.
    Scott Gilbertson, Wired, 27 Apr. 2020
  • That will mean that your shiny new 10K display won't output correctly.
    Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 1 May 2020
  • Now, the console can output games at 120 frames per second, with HDR enabled, and variable refresh rates.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 21 July 2021
  • Even without a phone able to output hi-res LDAC files, music sounds fantastic.
    Brad Moon, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • To calculate the graph Laplacian, first imagine a graph and also a function on that graph that outputs a value at each point.
    Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2017
  • Qualcomm's new Quick Charge 5 protocol supports the PD standard and can output 100 watts as well.
    Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 14 Oct. 2020
  • This computer would accept a string as input, and output the length of the shortest program that can produce that string.
    Noson S. Yanofsky, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2018
  • The problem with this method is that if the middle four digits of the square are all zeros, the generator will then output only zeros.
    Quanta Magazine, 6 Feb. 2020
  • For example, a Boolean function might be programmed to output 1 if at least one of its input bits is a 1, and to output a 0 if none of the inputs is a 1.
    Quanta Magazine, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Taken as a group, the qubits act as a number generator, outputting any number between 0 and 253.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 23 Sep. 2019
  • That was when the accessory could only output 5W of power.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Although the space may seem tight, one container can output the equivalent of 1,000 heads of lettuce each week, Katsiroubas said.
    London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 7 May 2021
  • The total energy that can be stored in a unit, measured in watt-hours (Wh), indicates how much juice a unit can ultimately output.
    Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 9 Feb. 2023
  • However, this mode does have several problems, such as the famous mode 7 not outputting a correct picture in this mode.
    Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The fuels output far less carbon but cost much more than traditional fuels.
    Alex Stone, ABC News, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The Boolean function will then output a 1 (true) if every input point is a 1 — meaning that every point in the set is exclusively in that set, making the set disjoint.
    Quanta Magazine, 21 Oct. 2019
  • One idea was to compute all the possible circle packings that contain two arbitrary curvatures A and B. Rickards wrote a program that outputs a sort of ledger that reports which integers show up to the party when A is hosting.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023

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