Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A document printed from a printing device, especially one using continuously fed paper.
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- noun computing A
hard copy of aprogram ordata set ,printed on paper.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the output of a computer in printed form
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Examples
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The "certification of birth" Obama provided – a printout from a computer on fancy paper the day it was requested – is not the same as a birth certificate (made at the birth, with the signature and embossed seal) and would NOT provide the proof needed to obtain a security clearance which is held by one in thirty Americans.
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The "certification of birth" Obama produced is simply a printout from a computer database, printed on fancy paper the day it is requested.
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ONE HOUR LATER, I'm finally handed a copy of a printout from a computer, which must have taken all of 10 minutes to make.
A Team of One aka TBTAM 2008
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I remember storming home to my mother with the printout from the library in hand, demanding to know why they hadn†™ t renamed the swimming hole after me, why people weren†™ t remembering my name instead of some dumb kid from ancient times who probably didn†™ t even care about swimming or diving or the Olympics.
365 tomorrows » 2005 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2005
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So, can you then imagine one such person talking to a peer and coming to the swift realisation that that person, not only wouldn’t recognise a fragment of C++ code if it appeared in printout in front of them, but that they don’t think they need to!
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The average investor is not getting Warren Buffett to look at his portfolio; he’s getting a printout from a computer model.
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The average investor is not getting Warren Buffett to look at his portfolio; he’s getting a printout from a computer model.
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So, can you then imagine one such person talking to a peer and coming to the swift realisation that that person, not only wouldn’t recognise a fragment of C++ code if it appeared in printout in front of them, but that they don’t think they need to!
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But these can carry a hidden problem: in some localities, voting machines stamp a bar code on the paper record, and it is the bar code, not the human-readable portion of the printout, that is the official record of each individual's vote.
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And as best I can tell, Frank, everyone on the printout is a contributor or ` friend 'of the political party not currently in power.
Honeymoon Patterson, James 2005
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