product
UK /ˈpɹɒd.əkt/ · US /ˈpɹɑ.dəkt/ noun, verb
Forms products producting producted produck
- noun Anything that is produced; a result. “The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.”
- noun The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process. “They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production.”
- noun A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances. “Skill is the product of hours of practice. His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue.”
- noun (chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction. “This is a product of lime and nitric acid.”
- noun (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers. “The product of 2 and 3 is 6. The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24.”
- noun (mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.
- noun Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
- noun (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale. “That store offers a variety of products. We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month.”
- verb (transitive, obsolete) To produce.
Synonyms
endwork production output creation yield merchandise wares goods ware mathematical product intersection Cartesian product
Etymology
From Middle English product, from Latin prōductus, perfect participle of prōdūcō, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.
- noun The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.
- verb To produce; to bring forward. "Producted to . . . examination." [Obs.] Foxe.
- verb To lengthen out; to extend. [Obs.]
Etymology [L. productus, p. pr. of producere. See Produce.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “product”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details