outputting
- 1Present participle and gerund of output.
The sensor array is outputting fresh readings every few seconds.
By outputting each frame to a separate file, the tool avoids overwriting earlier captures.
Note
A verb with two lives. In general use, output means to produce or complete. In computing, it means to send data to a monitor, a printer, a file or another program. It usually takes an object and a destination: outputting results to a file. Notice the doubled t before -ing. The same spelling also belongs to the golfing verb, so context decides which one is meant.
- 2Present participle and gerund of outputt.
The mill is outputting more lumber this quarter than it did all of last year.
Outputting figures by hand left plenty of room for arithmetic mistakes.
Note
A golfer's form, built from out- plus putt. To outputt someone is to putt better than they do, so the person beaten is the direct object: outputting a rival on the final green. It patterns like other out- verbs of competition. Despite the spelling, it has nothing to do with the data-sending verb.
outputting is a form of output
output, verb: To send data out of a computer: to a device such as a monitor or printer, or to another program. Full entry
- Spelling
- output → outputting: double the t, add -ing
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