Input

Definition: Input

Input

Noun

1. Signal going into an electronic system.

2. Any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action.

Verb

1. Enter (data or a program) into a computer.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "input" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Computing

Aerospace

Electrical Engineering

INPUT

Synonyms: Input

Crosswords: Input

Italian (fit in, form part of, frame, input), Spanish (input), Swedish (input).

Coach, if I could input into your mental mainframe for a moment (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

What does it need input for (Short Circuit; writing credit: Brent Maddock; S.S. Wilson)

If I don't input those numbers it doesn't make much of a difference (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

Nah, I'm trying to watch my input. I need plenty of wholesome nutricious alcohol (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

I'd appreciate your input (The Bad Touch; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang)

References

• The World Market for Digital Automatic Data Processing Machines Containing in the Same Housing a Central Processing Unit and an Input and Output Unit: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• How Am I Teaching?: Forms & Activities for Acquiring Instructional Input (reference)

• The Kink and I: A Psychiatrist's Guide to Untwisted Living (An Input Book) (reference)

• Turn Customer Input into Innovation (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition) [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• What Every Christian Should Know About Growing: Basic Steps to Discipleship (An Input Book) (reference)

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Periodicals

• Mtia Input (reference)

• Proceedings Of The Voice Input Output Systems Applications Conference (reference)

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Music

• Input Error [IMPORT] (reference)

• Volume 1: Family Input (reference)

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High Tech

• Tektronix 500Sht Tray and Lower Input Feeder Assembly F/ Phaser 840/850 (reference)

• Nortel Networks HRpsu Base Unit Single Ac Input Requires At Least 1 Aa0005003 (reference)

• LARGE CAPACITY INPUT FEEDER (reference)

• 300W Atx Ind PS2 Size Ac Input with 7 Output (reference)

• Stanton ISM-2 Input Signal Mixer (reference)

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Spring Creek just above Boulder Creek input. The riparian vegetation is normal. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Looking up Spring Creek just above Boulder Creek input. Note the change in the riparian vegetation. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Nonquit marsh, a tidally restricted marsh and one of the projects selected for restoration during Round 2. Restoration projects are selected in rounds, or groups to allow time for public input and funding determinations by the Trustees. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A farmer scouts his field for any needs for weed control, pest control, and tests the soil for nutrients. Scouting and applying measures to only the parts of the field that need them saves input costs for the farmer and curbs the use of commecial fertiliz. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Ridge till farmer in Pocahontas County, Iowa, saves input costs as well as soil with a ridge-till planting system. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Health

Input of these individuals is needed to help solve this health crisis. (references)

Pediatricians, family practitioners, and psychiatrists tend to rely on parent rather than teacher input. (references)

The development of such standards with clinical as well as technical input to the process needs to be encouraged. (references)

Business

Any GST included in the price of the APC equipment can be claimed as an input tax credit. (references)

Added to this are higher input costs, especially in terms of the continuously rising price of diesel. (references)

Three winning projects will get incubation input up to USD 150,000 to turn their ideas into viable businesses. (references)

Children

El Salvador

In November the National Secretariat of the Family solicited public input on the final draft and incorporated suggestions into a new national policy of comprehensive attention for children and adolescents. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bolivia

The new decree reflects input from religious groups and, according to the Government, is designed to increase transparency and dialog in church-state relations. (references)

Pakistan

According to minority community members, the Government made efforts to seek minority input into decision-making and offered some religious minorities cabinet positions. (references)

Economic History

Kazakhstan

Implementation of the system was revised several times, with input from foreign investors. (references)

Ukraine

Input capacity of the gas transport system of Ukraine is 290 billion cubic meters annually. (references)

Belgium

Likewise, nuts are an important input for snack foods, a market estimated at 66 million dollars. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

The report went to Congress, and according to IDL, it is expected to be the main input for constitutional reforms by Congress. (references)

South Africa

Many organizations participate in governmental bodies that seek to gather public input and to fashion policies related to human rights. (references)

Indigenous People

Central African Republic

In general Pygmies have little input in decisions affecting their lands, culture, traditions, and the allocation of natural resources. (references)

Minorities

Ireland

The Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act obliges local elected officials to draw up and implement Traveller accommodation plans on a 5-year basis and requires Traveller input in the process. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

Unresolved problems of many years' standing also include claims by Arab groups that land expropriation for public use has affected the Arab community disproportionately; that Arabs have been allowed too little input in planning decisions that affect their schools and municipalities; that mosques and cemeteries belonging to the Islamic Waqf (religious endowment) have been neglected or expropriated unjustly for public use; and that successive governments have blocked the return to their homes of citizens displaced in the early years of the country's history. (references)

Political Economy

Mexico

Mexico has a long-standing arrangement for providing private sector input into economic decision-making. (references)

Political Rights

Tonga

No public input was solicited, and the results of the review (which were to be completed in March) had not been announced by year's end. (references)

Trade

Singapore

The Singapore company must pay GST Input Tax to Customs and Excise Department. (references)

Philippines

Input is being allowed from major trading partners such as the U.S., Canada and Australia. (references)

Worker Rights

China

These congresses are supposed to be the vehicle for worker input into enterprise policies and for guiding union activities. (references)

Mongolia

Wages and other employment issues are set between the employer, whether state or private, and the employee, with trade union input, if appropriate. (references)

Japan

Minimum wages are set on a regional (prefectural) and industry basis, with the input of tripartite (workers, employers, public interest) advisory councils. (references)

Expressions using "input": amplifier input admittance ♦ computer assisted data input ♦ data input ♦ data input device ♦ effective input flow ♦ excitatory input ♦ inhibiting input ♦ input bias current ♦ input check ♦ input data ♦ input device ♦ input energising quantity ♦ input energizing quantity ♦ input equipment ♦ input file ♦ input limits ♦ input primitive ♦ input process ♦ input program ♦ input routine ♦ input signal ♦ input unit ♦ manual data input ♦ maximum tolerable input jitter ♦ power reflected from input ♦ quiescent input current ♦ sensory input ♦ TE receiver input impedance ♦ usable input range. Additional references.

Beginning with "input": input-arrays, input-check, input-impedance, input-one, input-out, input-output, input-output, input-output device, input-outputs, input-pairs, input-process, input-provision, input-signal, input-specific, input-specificity, input-system, input-transformation-output, input-two.

Ending with "input": re-input.

Containing "input": output-to-input ratio.

Albanian

informacion i futur, i hyrë (incomer), i futur (epenthetic, hidden, intruder, out of the way, sunken), ushqim (aliment, alimentation, alimony, allowance, chow, chuck, comestible, cuisine, diet, dish, eatables, eating, fare, feed, feeding, food, foodstuff, grub, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pot luck, provender, repast, supply, sustenance, table, tack, Tommy), të dhëna (account, conferment, data, evidence, information, particular, record, records), hyrje (entrance, portal), futje (entrance, entry, ingoing, insertion, intake, intrusion, joining in, steep, thrusting). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مساهمة (chip), ‏معلومات (acquaintance, datum, dope, information, notion, poop, reference), ‏مشاركة (communion, involvement, part, participation, partnership, presence, sharing), ‏طاقة (ability, capacity, energy, pizzazz, power), ‏الطاقة المزودة ل. (various references)

Bulgarian 

количество погълната енергия, въвеждане (establishment, inauguration, initiation, installation, installations, intonation, introduction), входяща информация, входящ (incoming, ingoing, re-entrant), входна верига, входен (entrance), вход (adit, admission, admission fee, admittance, door, doorway, entrance, entry, gate money, gateway, ingress, passage, way in), влагане (investment, placement), номинална инсталационна мощност, принос (contribution). (various references)

Chinese 

输入 (Afferent, encode, IP). (various references)

Czech

investice (investment), zapsat (enlist, enrol, enroll, enter, key in, put down, record, register, take down, write down), vstup (admission, admittance, coming-in, entrée, entrance, entry), vklad (deposit), uložit (bestow, collocate, deposit, ensconce, house, impose, inflict, keep, land with, pack off, place, put to bed, save, seat, Stow), přísun (feed). (various references)

Danish

input, indlæsnings-, indlæsning (entry, input process, loading), indgangs, indgang (entrance, portal), inddata (input data), tilfoersel (alimentation, etc.), other forms of precipitation, sublimation, supply, various processes which operate to increase the mass of a glacier or of a snow-field (deposition of snow), tilført effekt, produktionsomkostninger (costs of production, producing expenses, production costs, production expenses), forsyning. (various references)

Dutch

invoer (entry, import, input process). (various references)

Esperanto

enigo. (various references)

Farsi 

پول بمیان نهاده , نیروی مصرف شده , خرج (Cost, Disburse, Disbursement, Expenditure, Expense, Outlay), درون گذاشت . (various references)

Finnish

tulo (arrival, coming, entrance, income, product, revenue), tietojen syöttö (entry, input process), syöttötiedot (input data), syöttö-, syöttö (feeding), ottoteho (absorbed power), lähtö (departure, start, take-off). (various references)

French

introduction (introduction), saisie (input process), puissance absorbée, frais de production, Entrant, entrée de données, entrée (ingress), données, donnée en entrée (input data), donnée d'entrée (input data), d'entrée, contribution, charges de production, apport (intake), énergie. (various references)

German

eingang (entrance, entry), eingabe (enter, entry, feed, intake, petition), leistungsaufnahme (power consumption). (various references)

Greek 

έξοδα παραγωγής (costs of production, production costs, production expenses), Είσοδος (entry, input process), εισαγόμενη δύναμη, εισαγωγή (intake, introduction, induction), ενέργεια (action, energy, proceeding), επιβαρύνσεις παραγωγής (costs of production, production costs, production expenses), είσοδος (entry), απορροφούμενη ισχύς (absorbed power), ...εισαγωγής. (various references)

Hebrew 

תשומה (assignment, attention), קלט (absorption, reception), כניסה (entry), הכנסת נתונים, נתוני כניסה. (various references)

Hungarian

ráfordítás (appropriation, expenditure), bemenet (access, admittance), anyagfelhasználás. (various references)

Indonesian

masukan. (various references)

Italian

ingresso (entrance, entry, admission). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

入力電流 (incoming current), 入力線 , 入力情報 , 入力 , インフレ対策 (counter-inflation measures, impedance, imperial, implement, implementation, implementor, implication, import, important, impossible, impotence, impression, impressive, improvisation, in play, inheritance, invader, invention, inventory, inventory cycles, inventory finance, inventory recession, inventory recovery, investment, investment analyst, investment bank, investment counselor, invoice, involve). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

にゅうりょくでんりゅう (incoming current), にゅうりょくせん, にゅうりょくじょうほう, にゅうりょく, インプット . (various references)

Korean 

입력. (various references)

Manx

troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bringing up, build, building, construct, contraction, development, edifice, elaborate, elaboration, elevate, gather up, getting up, harvest, hoist, invoke, lift, lifting, nurture, pick off; absorption, pick up, pull in, put up, raise, raise up, rally, rear, rearing, rig up, set in rows, sing up, structure, take, winch, wind, winding), glackey (apprehension, buckle, catch, catch out, clutch, holdfast, reception, seize, shoot, shot, snatch), cur stiagh (bring home, buy in, drop, embody, embrace, enclose, harvest, house, insert, insertion, install, installation, interject, interruption, intervention, lay up, pass, put in, return). (various references)

Pig Latin

inputay.(various references)

Portuguese

entrada (entrance, entry, inlet, portal). (various references)

Romanian

admisie (induction, inlet, intake, intromission). (various references)

Russian 

входные данные, входной (inlet), вводить вклад;ввод входной, вводимый, ввод данных, ввод (applet, inlet, lead in, lead-in), потребление (consumption), поглощенный (absorbed, immersed, rapt), поглощение (absorption, adsorption, intake, merger, uptake), подводимый. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ulazni (entrant), ulazna jedinica, ulagati (invest), ulaganje sredstava, staviti (apply, bring up, insert, lay, park, place, pop, posit, put, put on, set). (various references)

Spanish

input, entrada (entrance, access, portal, admittance, accession, admission, down payment, entry, inlet, opening). (various references)

Swedish

inmatning (feeding, intake). (various references)

Thai

ให้ข้อมูล, กำลังกระแสไฟฟ้า, การนำเข้า, การสนับสนุน (reinforcement, sanction), ข้อมูล. (various references)

Turkish

veri girişi, giriş (access, adit, admission, admittance, ante, checkin, door, doorway, entrée, entrance, entry, exordium, induction, inflow, influx, ingress, inlet, intake, introduction, lead in, pass, port, preamble, prelude, proem, vestibule), girdi (data, entry). (various references)

Ukrainian

інформація на вході, вклад (holding), вводити дані, подача (approach, batting, innings, serve, serving). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "input": inputs, inputted, inputting. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Input" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imput, inbet, ingpt, injut, Inouk, inp, inpet, Inpex, inpu, inpul, inpute, inpuy, Inqua, Inu, inupt, inut, ipit, Ipoto, ipu, Kinpont, nipet, nipt. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pint, punt, unit.

-2 letters: nip, nit, nut, pin, pit, piu, pun, put, tin, tip, tui, tun, tup.

-3 letters: in, it, nu, pi, ti, un, up, ut.

+1 letter: inputs, pignut, pundit, turnip.

+2 letters: nuptial, nutpick, opuntia, petunia, pignuts, pinetum, piquant, pouting, pundits, puniest, punties, punting, puritan, putting, putzing, spinout, sputnik, tumping, tupping, turnips, unplait, unspilt, unsplit, utopian.

+3 letters: deputing, erupting, eruption, gumption, gunpoint, impudent, impunity, imputing, inputted, nuptials, nutpicks, opuntias, outpaint, outpoint, pantsuit, petunias, platinum, plutonic, preunite, printout, prurient, puissant, punditic, punditry, punition, punitive, punitory, punkiest, punniest, pupating, pupation, puritans, putamina, puttying, reputing, sinciput, spinouts, spouting, spurting, sputniks, stumping, supinate, surprint, thumping, timpanum, trouping, trumping, tumpline, turnpike, turnspit, unpitied, unplaits, unpliant, unpoetic, unpolite, unripest, unspoilt, untipped, updating, uprating, utopians.