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input
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun input has 4 senses
- input(n = noun.communication) input signal - signal going into an electronic system; Array is a kind of sign, signal, signaling
- input(n = noun.communication) comment, remark - a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account" has particulars: ad-lib, courtesy, gambit, ploy, obiter dictum, passing comment, mention, reference, observation, reflection, reflexion, rib, crack, quip, sally, wisecrack, barb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam, conversation stopper, stopper, banality, bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude, zinger
- input(n = noun.cognition) stimulant, stimulation, stimulus - any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action; Array is a kind of information
- input(n = noun.artifact) Array - a component of production; something that goes into the production of output; Array is a kind of component, constituent, element
is a kind of statement
has particulars: elicitation, evocation, induction, kick, turn-on, negative stimulation, turnoff, conditioned stimulus, reinforcement, reinforcer, reinforcing stimulus, cue, discriminative stimulus, positive stimulus, negative stimulus
Verb input has 1 sense
- input(v = verb.contact) Array - enter (data or a program) into a computer; Array is one way to enter, infix, insert, introduce
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
OXFORD DICTIONARY
input, n. & v.
--n.
1 what is put in or taken in, or operated on by any process or system.
2 Electronics a a place where, or a device through which, energy, information, etc., enters a system (a tape recorder with inputs for microphone and radio). b energy supplied to a device or system; an electrical signal.
3 the information fed into a computer.
4 the action or process of putting in or feeding in.
5 a contribution of information etc.
--v.tr. (inputting; past and past part. input or inputted) (often foll. by into)
1 put in.
2 Computing supply (data, programs, etc., to a computer, program, etc.).
--n.
1 what is put in or taken in, or operated on by any process or system.
2 Electronics a a place where, or a device through which, energy, information, etc., enters a system (a tape recorder with inputs for microphone and radio). b energy supplied to a device or system; an electrical signal.
3 the information fed into a computer.
4 the action or process of putting in or feeding in.
5 a contribution of information etc.
--v.tr. (inputting; past and past part. input or inputted) (often foll. by into)
1 put in.
2 Computing supply (data, programs, etc., to a computer, program, etc.).
Idiom
input- (or input/) output Computing etc. of, relating to, or for input and output.
Derivative
inputter n.
THESAURUS
input
access, admission, entrance, entree, entry, import, importation, importing, income, incoming, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, insertion, insinuation, intake, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, leakage, penetration, percolation, reception, seepage
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