An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Power which is given out by any plant or part of such plant, in the form and for the purpose required.
   

2. Computers: The information produced by a program or process from a specific → input.

Etymology (EN): From → out + put, from M.E. put(t)en “to push, thrust, put;” O.E. *putian.

Etymology (PE): borundâd, from borun, birun, → out,

• dâd “given,” p.p. of dâdan “to give” (Mid.Pers. dâdan “to give,” O.Pers./Av. dā- “to give, grant, yield,” akin to L. data, → datum).