What does cout mean?

Answer 1

output in C languages

Answer 2

character stream out I believe

Edit: The 'console' is a character device...I'm linking the original source in another answer.

Answer 3

console output or sometimes characters output

Answer 4

http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq2.html#cout

"'cout' is pronounced 'see-out'. The 'c' stands for 'character' because iostreams map values to and from byte (char) representations"

From here, note 'wcout' (wide char out), etc

http://stackoverflow.com/a/2262238/3981745

Proving iostreams (they can be redirected):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10150468/how-to-redirect-cin-and-cout-to-files

Answer 5

cout: console output cin: console input, cout is used to print output on console