I/O

See also: Appendix:Variations of "io"

English

Alternative forms

• IO, i/o

Noun

I/O (usually uncountable, plural I/Os)

1. (computing, electrical engineering) Abbreviation of input/output.
   • 2006, Elliotte Rusty Harold, Java I/O:

     In addition to the synchronous blocking I/O explored in the last two chapters, NIO also supports nonblocking I/O.

   • 2021, Peter Kimmel, Sherri Brunson, Lisa Martinez, IBM DS8900F Performance Best Practices and Monitoring (page 22)

     It reduces I/O latency, for selected eligible I/Os, to the point that z/OS no longer needs to undispatch the running task.

Translations

computing: input/output

• German: E/A
• Polish: I/O (pl)
• Portuguese: E/S (pt) f

Anagrams

• -oi, OI, Oi, oi, oi!