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Output vs Outflow - What's the difference?

output | outflow |

As nouns the difference between output and outflow

is that output is production; quantity produced, created, or completed while outflow is the process of flowing out.

As verbs the difference between output and outflow

is that output is to produce, create, or complete while outflow is to flow outward.

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.

    • Related terms

    * input

    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.

    Anagrams

    * English verbs with base form identical to past participle

    outflow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of flowing out

    • Synonyms

    * (process of flowing out) effluence, efflux, effluxion

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To flow outward.