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Throughput vs Output - What's the difference?

throughput | output |

As nouns the difference between output and throughput

is that output is production; quantity produced, created, or completed while throughput is the rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed.

As a verb output

is to produce, create, or complete.

throughput

English

Alternative forms

* thruput

Noun

(en noun)
  • (operations) The rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed.
  • * The factory managed a throughput of 120 units per hour.
  • * 1927 , Harald Nielsen, "Distillation of Carbonaceous Materials" [http://www.google.com/patents?id=uPpbAAAAEBAJ&dq=throughput&jtp=1], US Patent 1886262, line 70:
    • "if the rate of heating is substantially reduced, not only is the throughput of the apparatus diminished and the cost of the process increased, but the properties of the resultant coke are detrimentally affected."
  • (networking) The rate at which data is transferred through a system.

    • Derived terms

    * system throughput * aggregate throughput * maximum throughput

    Anagrams

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    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