production
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈdʌkʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /pɾɵˈdəkʃən/
Forms: form: productions
Etymology: From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). Equivalent to produce + -tion. See produce.
Senses: examples: text: The widget making machine is being used for production now.
glosses: The act of producing, making or creating something.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Lost Sanjak”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, pages 16–17:
glosses: The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
examples: text: The widgets are coming out of production now.
glosses: The act of being produced.
examples: text: They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: The total amount produced.
examples: text: We went to a production of Hamlet.
glosses: The presentation of a theatrical work.
examples: text: He made a simple meal into a huge production.
glosses: An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
examples: text: This is the final production model.
glosses: That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
glosses: The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An extension or protrusion.
examples: text: Each production is implemented with a function.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
examples: text: production environment
text: live production database
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: 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 manager
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