# production
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). See produce.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɹəˈdʌkʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Noun

production (countable and uncountable, plural productions)
* The act of producing, making or creating something. [from 15th c.]
    The widget making machine is being used for production now.
* The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration. [from 15th c.]
** 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Lost Sanjak”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, pages 16–17:I tramped to a neighbouring market-town, and, late as the hour was, the production of a few shillings procured me supper and a night's lodging in a cheap coffee-house.
* The act of being produced.
    The widgets are coming out of production now.
* The total amount produced.
    They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.
** 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 136:The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
* The presentation of a theatrical work.
    We went to a production of Hamlet.
* An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
    He made a simple meal into a huge production.
* That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
    This is the final production model.
* The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
* (zoology) An extension or protrusion.
* (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
    Each production is implemented with a function.
* (programming, uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
    production environment
    live production database
* (Scots law, in the plural) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
* (linguistics) Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.

#### Derived terms

* agroproduction
* anarchy of production
* autoproduction
* batch production
* bioproduction
* Breit-Wheeler pair production
* burden of production
* coproduction
* co-production
* desiring-production
* electroproduction
* eroduction
* factor of production
* flow production
* hadroproduction
* hyperproduction
* hypoproduction
* industrial livestock production
* job production
* leptoproduction
* make a production out of
* mass production
* means of production
* misproduction
* mode of production
* multiproduction
* nanoproduction
* nonproduction
* osteoproduction
* overproduction
* pair production
* photoproduction
* post-production
* pre-production
* preproduction
* primary production
* productionable
* productional
* production baby
* production brigade
* production car
* production code
* production externality
* production hell
* productionisation
* productionise, productionize
* productionist
* productionless
* production line
* production means
* production model
* production music
* production order
* production possibility curve
* production record
* production team
* production value
* productionwise
* produsage
* prosumption
* relation of production
* relations of production
* reproduction
* request for production
* underproduction
* unproduction

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: プロダクション (purodakushon)

#### Translations
## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin productiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʁɔ.dyk.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

production f (plural productions)
* production

#### Derived terms

* chaîne de production

#### Related terms

* produire
* produit

#### Descendants

* → Dutch: productie

### Further reading

* “production”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.