input

1. (intransitive) To put in; put on.Examples: ""Following the removal of the Golborne Link from the current Bill and, given the direct importance of maintaining the benefits that the Golborne Link would have delivered for Scotland, the Transport Minister has sought and received confirmation from the UK Minister of State for Transport that Scottish Government Officials will input to the consideration being given to the alternative.""intransitive

2. (transitive) To enter data.Examples: "The user inputs his date of birth and the computer displays his age."; "An artificial-intelligence application called Sudowrite wrote the paragraph above. I inputted the text of the first section of “The Metamorphosis” and then pressed a button called Wormhole. The computer composed the continuation."; ""The timetable is then produced using a desktop publishing package with data inputted manually, and the files then sent to the editor, Chris Woodcock, for proof-reading and conversion to PDF format."transitive

3. (transitive) To accept data that is entered.Examples: "The program inputs a value for the integer variable num and compares it with the constant integer limit."transitive