input
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
input/ˈɪnpʊt/
▶noun
- 1 what is put in, taken in, or operated on by a process or system.
■ a person's contribution: her input on issues was appreciated.
- 2 the action or process of putting something in.
- 3 energy supplied to a device or system; an electrical signal.
■ Electronics a place or device from which energy or information enters a system.
– derivatives
inputter noun.
inputter noun.
'input' also found in these Oxford entries:
active
- adder
- and
- background
- BIOS
- cursor
- discriminator
- feedback
- frequency response
- garbage
- graphics tablet
- input-output
- interactive
- I/O
- latch
- line-in
- mixer
- nor
- not
- notepad
- operational amplifier
- pipe
- primary
- programme
- prompt
- puck
- read-write
- real time
- rollerball
- servomechanism
- slew
- stylus
- touch pad
- transaction
- truth table
- Turing machine
- user interface
- VideoPlus
- visual display unit
- vocoder
