Толковый словарь английского языка - input

I. noun Date: circa 1888 something that is put in: as, an amount put in , power or energy put into a machine or system for storage, conversion in kind, or conversion of characteristics usually with the intent of sizable recovery in the form of output, a component of production (as land, labor, or raw materials), information fed into a data processing system or computer, advice, opinion, comment, a stimulus that acts on and is integrated into a bodily system , the means by which or the point at which an ~ (as of energy, material, or data) is made, the act or process of putting in, II. transitive verb (~ted or ~; ~ting) Date: 1946 to enter (as data) into a computer or data processing system