Input vs. Impute: What's the Difference?
Input and Impute Definitions
Input
Energy, work, or power used to drive a machine.
Impute
To relate (something, usually something bad) to a particular cause or source; place the fault or responsibility for
Imputed the rocket failure to a faulty gasket.
Kindly imputed my clumsiness to inexperience.
Input
Current, electromotive force, or power supplied to an electric circuit, network, or device.
Impute
To assign as a characteristic; credit
The gracefulness so often imputed to cats.
Input
Information put into a communications system for transmission or into a computer system for processing.
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Impute
(transitive) To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness.
Input
Any of the items, including materials, equipment, and funds, required for production.
Impute
To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution.
Input
The act of putting in; infusion
A steady input of fuel.
Impute
(transitive) To take into account.
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Input
An amount put in.
Impute
(transitive) To attribute or credit to.
People impute great cleverness to cats.
Input
Contribution of information or a comment or viewpoint
A discussion with input from all members of the group.
Impute
To replace missing data with substituted values.
Input
To enter (data or a program) into a computer.
Impute
To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; - generally in a bad sense.
Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault,If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise.
One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him - envy.
Input
The act or process of putting in; infusion.
Impute
To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.
It was imputed to him for righteousness.
They meritImputed shall absolve them who renounceTheir own, both righteous and unrighteous deeds.
Input
That which is put in, as in an amount.
Impute
To take account of; to consider; to regard.
If we impute this last humiliation as the cause of his death.
Input
Contribution of work or information, as an opinion or advice.
You can provide input via this form.
Impute
Attribute or credit to;
We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
People impute great cleverness to cats
Input
Data fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the output of that process.
Sound input
Impute
Attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source;
The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness
Input
(electronics) An input jack.
Model with A/V input
Input
(transitive) To put in; put on.
Input
(transitive) To enter data.
The user inputs his date of birth and the computer displays his age.
Input
(transitive) To accept data that is entered.
Input
Signal going into an electronic system
Input
Any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
Input
Enter (data or a program) into a computer
