# product
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English product, from Latin prōductus, perfect participle of prōdūcō, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɹɒd.əkt/, /ˈpɹɒd.ʌkt/
* (General American) enPR: prŏ′dəkt, IPA: /ˈpɹɑ.dəkt/, /ˈpɹɑ.dʌkt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: prod‧uct

### Noun

product (countable and uncountable, plural products)
* Anything that is produced; a result.
    The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 683-84:To whom thus Michael: These are the product / Of those ill-mated marriages thou sawest;
** 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:These institutions are the products of enthusiasm; they are the instruments of wisdom.
** 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.
** The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
    Synonyms: endwork, production, output, creation, yield
    They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production.
** 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.
** (chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
    This is a product of lime and nitric acid.
** (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.
** (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.
** 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.
*** 2002, Oonagh McDonald with Kevin Keasey, The future of retail banking in Europe, page 146:Product innovation is needed to meet changes in society and its requirements for particular types of banking product.
*** 2002, Veljko Milutinović with Frédéric Patricelli, E-business and e-challenges, page 133:This sort of relationship can improve quality of transportation and can help in negotiations between transportation providers and transportation product users.
*** 2006, Teresa Luckey with Joseph Phillips, Software project management for dummies, page 55:You can't create a stellar software product unless you know what it is supposed to do. You must work with the stakeholders to create the product scope.
* (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.
    Synonyms: merchandise, wares, goods
    That store offers a variety of products.  We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month.
** (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
    I got some product here — you buying?
* (cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc. Often specifically a preparation used to hold one's hair in a desired arrangement.
** 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 153:He puts his fingers in Miller’s hair, which is greasy with product.
    Wash excess product out of your hair.

#### Hyponyms

* end product
* finished product
* gross domestic product
* gross national product
* Cartesian product
* categorical product
* cross product
* dot product
* vector product

#### Derived terms

* by-product
* Hartree product
* product line
* product placement
* product range
* product recall
* time-bandwidth product
* agriproduct
* animal product
* attorney's work product
* beauty product
* bioproduct
* biproduct
* bye-product
* byproduct
* cap product
* combination product
* condensation product
* coproduct
* dairy product
* direct product
* empty product
* exoproduct
* exterior product
* feminine product
* fission product
* forest product
* free product
* gene product
* health product
* Hofmann product
* inner product
* inner product space
* ionic product
* Kronecker product
* minimal viable product
* minimum viable product
* multiproduct
* nanoproduct
* natural product
* nonproduct
* outer product
* packaged petroleum product
* paraproduct
* petroproduct
* photoproduct
* phytoproduct
* Pontryagin product
* preproduct
* product base
* product binning
* product design
* product differentiation
* product engineer
* productisation
* productize
* productless
* product management
* product manager
* product owner
* product ring
* product rule
* product sample
* product topology
* product variance
* scalar product
* scalar triple product
* semidirect product
* shuffle product
* sideproduct
* smash product
* solubility product
* subproduct
* tensor product
* ultraproduct
* universal product code
* Wallis product
* waste product
* wedge product
* work product
* xenoproduct

#### Related terms

* produce
* producer
* production
* productor
* productress
* productrix

#### Collocations

* Adjectives often applied to "product": excellent, good, great, inferior, crappy, broken, defective, cheap, expensive, reliable, safe, dangerous, useful, valuable, useless, domestic, national, agricultural, industrial, financial.

#### Translations

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#### See also

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
* successor
* addition, summation:
    (augend) + (addend) = (total)
    (summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)
* subtraction:
    (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
* multiplication, factorization:
    (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
    (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)
* division:
    (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)
    (numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient)
       Or sometimes = (quotient) with (remainder) remaining
* exponentiation:
    (base) = (power)
* root extraction:
    √ (radicand) = (root)
* logarithmization:
    log$_{(base)}$ (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

### Verb

product (third-person singular simple present products, present participle producting, simple past and past participle producted)
* (transitive, obsolete) To produce.
** 1651, The Touchstone of Common Assurances, page 498:The probate of a Testament is the producting and insinuating of it before the Ecclesiastical Judge […]

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* produkt (before 1996)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōductum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /proːˈdʏkt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pro‧duct
* Rhymes: -ʏkt

### Noun

product n (plural producten, diminutive productje n)
* product

#### Derived terms

* afvalproduct
* bijproduct
* bruto binnenlands product
* bruto nationaal product
* fabrieksproduct
* handelsproduct
* kunstproduct
* massaproduct
* natuurproduct
* netto binnenlands product
* netto nationaal product
* stapelproduct
* wanproduct
* zuivelproduct

#### Related terms

* produceren
* productie
* productief
* productiviteit

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: produk
* → Indonesian: produk