output device
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- electronic or electromechanical equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds, or other mediaType of peripheral, computer peripheralKinds input/output device, I/O device
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output device
<hardware> Equipment connected to a computer that is used to transfer data out of the computer, either to a human user (e.g. as images on a monitor or sound from a loudspeaker) or to some form of permanent record (e.g. printed text). Most output devices are electronic with electromechanical components (e.g. a printer or loudspeaker) and/or electro-optical (e.g. a display screen).
Storage devices such as disk drives and magnetic tape drives act as both input devices and output devices (they are "read-write" devices), others such as some CD-ROMs may be input only ("read-only").
(2018-06-25)