different between output vs consumption

English

Etymology

out +? put.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?tp?t/

Noun

output (countable and uncountable, plural outputs)

1. (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.

2. (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.

3. (medicine) The flow rate of body liquids such as blood and urine.

Related terms

• input

Translations

Verb

output (third-person singular simple present outputs, present participle outputting, simple past and past participle output or outputted)

1. (economics) To produce, create, or complete.

   We output 1400 units last year.

2. (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.

Translations

Anagrams

• put out, put-out, putout

English

Etymology

From Old French consumpcion, from Latin consumptio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?mp.??n/

Noun

consumption (usually uncountable, plural consumptions)

1. The act of eating, drinking or using.

   The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.

2. The amount consumed.

   gross national consumption

3. The act of consuming or destroying.
4. (pathology) The wasting away of the human body through disease.
6. (pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.

Derived terms

• autoconsumption, self-consumption
• conspicuous consumption

Related terms

• consumer

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