input
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English
Etymology
From Middle English inputten, equivalent to in- + put.
Pronunciation
Noun
input (countable and uncountable, plural inputs)
- The act or process of putting in; infusion.
- That which is put in, as in an amount.
- Contribution of work or information, as an opinion or advice.
- You can provide input via this form.
- Data fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the output of that process.
- sound input
- (electronics) An input jack.
- model with A/V input
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
the act or process of putting in
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data fed into a process
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contribution
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Verb
input (third-person singular simple present inputs, present participle inputting, simple past and past participle input or inputted)
- (intransitive) To put in; put on.
- 2023 January 25, “Network News: Sturgeon and Burnham in secret talks to boost Scottish high-speed link”, in RAIL, number 975, page 11:
- "Following the removal of the Golborne Link from the current Bill and, given the direct importance of maintaining the benefits that the Golborne Link would have delivered for Scotland, the Transport Minister has sought and received confirmation from the UK Minister of State for Transport that Scottish Government Officials will input to the consideration being given to the alternative."
- (transitive) To enter data.
- The user inputs his date of birth and the computer displays his age.
- 2021 April 30, Stephen Marche, “The Computers Are Getting Better at Writing”, in The New Yorker:
- An artificial-intelligence application called Sudowrite wrote the paragraph above. I inputted the text of the first section of “The Metamorphosis” and then pressed a button called Wormhole. The computer composed the continuation.
- 2021 September 22, John Potter tells Paul Stephen, “Your guide to Europe”, in RAIL, number 940, page 65:
- "The timetable is then produced using a desktop publishing package with data inputted manually, and the files then sent to the editor, Chris Woodcock, for proof-reading and conversion to PDF format.
- (transitive) To accept data that is entered.
- 2009, J Stanley Warford, Computer Systems:
- The program inputs a value for the integer variable num and compares it with the constant integer limit.
Translations
to enter data
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Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
input m (plural inputs)
Related terms
- inputten
- output
French
Noun
input m (plural inputs)
Further reading
- “input”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
Etymology
From English input, from Middle English inputten.
Pronunciation
Noun
input (uncountable)
Derived terms
- menginput
Further reading
- “input” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English input.
Noun
input m (plural inputs)
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English input.
Noun
input n (plural inputuri)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Noun
input m (plural inputs)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “input”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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