What is the difference between output and scalar?
output | scalar |
(economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
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, title= (computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer.
(economics) to produce, create, or complete.
(computing) to send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer.
(mathematics) Having magnitude but not direction
(computer science) Consisting of a single value (e.g. integer or string) rather than multiple values (e.g. array)
Of, or relating to scale
(mathematics) A quantity that has magnitude but not direction; compare vector
(electronics) An amplifier whose output is a constant multiple of its input
As nouns the difference between output and scalar
is that output is production; quantity produced, created, or completed while scalar is a quantity that has magnitude but not direction; compare vector.As a verb output
is to produce, create, or complete.As an adjective scalar is
having magnitude but not direction.output
English
(wikipedia output)Noun
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.}}
Verb
- We output 1400 units last year.
- When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.