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Output vs Consumption - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between output and consumption

is that output is production; quantity produced, created, or completed while consumption is the act of consuming something.

As a verb output

is to produce, create, or complete.

output

English

(wikipedia output)

Noun

  • (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • (computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer.
  • Verb

  • (economics) to produce, create, or complete.
  • We output 1400 units last year.
  • (computing) to send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer.
  • When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.

    consumption

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of consuming something.
  • The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
  • The amount consumed.
  • gross national consumption
  • (pathology) The wasting-away of the human body through disease.
  • (senseid)(pathology, dated) Pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • Derived terms

    * autoconsumption, self-consumption. * conspicuous consumption.

    See also

    (Wikipedia)