Output vs. Throughput — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Output and Throughput
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Definitions
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
Throughput
In general terms, throughput is the rate of production or the rate at which something is processed. When used in the context of communication networks, such as Ethernet or packet radio, throughput or network throughput is the rate of successful message delivery over a communication channel.
Output
A place where power or information leaves a system.
Throughput
Output or production, as of a computer program, over a period of time.
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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Throughput
(networking) The rate at which data is transferred through a system.
Output
An amount produced or manufactured during a certain time.
Throughput
(operations) The rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed.
The factory managed a throughput of 120 units per hour.
Output
The energy, power, or work produced by a system.
Throughput
(optics) etendue.
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Output
(Computers) The information produced by a program or process from a specific input.
Throughput
Output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time)
Output
The act or process of producing; production.
Output
Intellectual or creative production
Literary output.
Artistic output.
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