product (English, noun)
Pronunciation: tags: Received-Pronunciation
ipa: /ˈpɹɒd.əkt/
tags: Received-Pronunciation
ipa: /ˈpɹɒd.ʌkt/
tags: General-American
enpr: prŏ′dəkt
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.dəkt/
tags: General-American
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.dʌkt/
tags: General-American
Etymology: From Middle English product, from Latin prōductus, perfect participle of prōdūcō, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.
Definitions: examples: text: They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production.
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glosses: Anything that is produced; a result.
The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
synonyms: endwork
production
output
creation
yield
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: text: Skill is the product of hours of practice.  His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue.
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glosses: Anything that is produced; a result.
A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: text: This is a product of lime and nitric acid.
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topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Anything that is produced; a result.
A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: text: The product of 2 and 3 is 6.  The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24.
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topics: arithmetic
glosses: Anything that is produced; a result.
A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Anything that is produced; a result.
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.
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: text: Product innovation is needed to meet changes in society and its requirements for particular types of banking product.
ref: 2002, Oonagh McDonald with Kevin Keasey, The future of retail banking in Europe, page 146:
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text: This sort of relationship can improve quality of transportation and can help in negotiations between transportation providers and transportation product users.
ref: 2002, Veljko Milutinović with Frédéric Patricelli, E-business and e-challenges, page 133:
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text: 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.
ref: 2006, Teresa Luckey with Joseph Phillips, Software project management for dummies, page 55:
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glosses: Anything that is produced; a result.
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.
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: text: The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
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text: To whom thus Michael: These are the product / Of those ill-mated marriages thou sawest;
ref: 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:
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text: These institutions are the products of enthusiasm; they are the instruments of wisdom.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:
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text: 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”.
ref: 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
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glosses: Anything that is produced; a result.
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: text: That store offers a variety of products.  We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month.
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synonyms: merchandise
wares
goods
glosses: A commodity offered for sale.
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: text: I got some product here — you buying?
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synonyms: merchandise
wares
goods
glosses: A commodity offered for sale.
Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: text: He puts his fingers in Miller’s hair, which is greasy with product.
ref: 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 153:
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text: Wash excess product out of your hair.
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topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: 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.
tags: uncountable
Forms: form: products
tags: plural
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: word: produce
word: producer
word: production
word: productor
word: productress
word: productrix
word: successor
sense: addition, summation
english: addend; total
alt: augend
word: + =
sense: addition, summation
english: sum
alt: summand
word: + +... =
sense: subtraction
roman: subtrahend
english: difference
word: − =
sense: multiplication, factorization; multiplier
roman: multiplicand
english: product
word: × =
sense: multiplication, factorization; factor
english: factor; factor; product
word: × ×... =
sense: division; dividend
roman: quotient
word: ÷ =
sense: numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient
english: with remaining
alt: quotient
word: Or sometimes
sense: exponentiation; base
english: power
alt: exponent
word: =
tags: root
sense: root extraction; degree
roman: radicand
word: √ =
sense: logarithmization
english: logarithm
alt: antilogarithm
word: log(base) =