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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
read-out
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ This program gives you a read-out of all the areas where sales have increased.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite all the electronic read-outs, there are times when good old-fashioned printed material was the most convenient form of record.
▪ He blinked, and projected before himself a read-out monitoring his life-support systems.
▪ Such recordings would enable them to monitor the effectiveness of certain maintenance and operational procedures by means of automatic read-out and computerised analysis.
▪ The read-out includes the time of entry, user identification and method of entry, for example, keycard or emergency metal key.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
read-out

1946, in computer sense, from read (v.) + out (adv.).

Wiktionary
read-out

alt. 1 The information, usually a measurement, displayed on a graduated scale. 2 (context computing English) the information output from a computer in a readable form. n. 1 The information, usually a measurement, displayed on a graduated scale. 2 (context computing English) the information output from a computer in a readable form.

Usage examples of "read-out".

Ld stole a second to glance at his own read-outs and winced as the impossible throughput readings registered.

If everyone here knew his present thoughts, if that message in greenish cipher that moved across the board represented the read-outs of Lyle Wynant, it would be mental debris alone that caused him humiliation, all the unwordable rubble, the glass, rags and paper of his tiny indefinable manias.

Weird little halos of coloured light cloaked five miniature flatscreens which flickered with the image of the good ship Mirriam, half covered with red digital read-outs.

Here there were no faders, no LED read-outs that she could change with a turn of a knob, no patch cords to be jerked loose and rerouted.

Leaving aside the problem of read-out, you could easily devise an arbitrary code whereby flaws in the atomic structure of the crystal denote binary numbers.

A gentle vibration quivered through the superdread-nougnt Alois Saint-Just as Engineering ran her final drive test, and her captain watched his read-outs with profound satisfaction.

The 120-degree scan of curved wall available to each of them flashed with data in numerous modes - pictorially in the spying screens, as probability function in mathematical read-outs, as depth-module decision analogues, as superiorinferior unit apportionments pictured in free-flowing pyramids, as visual reports reduced to cubed grids of binaries according to relative values, as motivational curves weighted for actionreaction and presented in flowing green lines.

The 120-degree scan of curved wall available to each of them flashed with data in numerous modes -- pictorially in the spying screens, as probability function in mathematical read-outs, as depth-module decision analogues, as superior/inferior unit apportionments pictured in free-flowing pyramids, as visual reports reduced to cubed grids of binaries according to relative values, as motivational curves weighted for action/reaction and presented in flowing green lines .

The data read-out on the machine showed tolerances measured in angstroms.