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See also:produc't

English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishproduct, fromLatinprōductus, perfect participle ofprōdūcō, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.

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Noun

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product (countable anduncountable,pluralproducts)

  1. Anything that is produced; aresult.
    Theproduct of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
    • 1667,John Milton, “Book XI”, inParadise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker [];[a]nd by Robert Boulter [];[a]nd Matthias Walker, [],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [],1873,→OCLC, lines683-84:
      To whom thus Michael: These are theproduct / Of those ill-mated marriages thou sawest;
    • 1790,Edmund Burke,Reflections on the Revolution in France:
      These institutions are theproducts of enthusiasm; they are the instruments of wisdom.
    • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, inThe Economist, volume411, number8892:
      The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much aproduct 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 The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts.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”.
    1. The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
      Synonyms:endwork,production,output,creation,yield
      They improve theirproduct every year; they export most of their agricultural production.
    2. A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
      Skill is theproduct of hours of practice.  His reaction was theproduct of hunger and fatigue.
    3. (chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
      This is aproduct of lime and nitric acid.
    4. (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
      Theproduct of 2 and 3 is 6.  Theproduct of 2, 3, and 4 is 24.
    5. (mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like themultiplicative operation in aring,product of types or acategorical product.
    6. 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, page146:
        Product innovation is needed to meet changes in society and its requirements for particular types of bankingproduct.
      • 2002, Veljko Milutinović with Frédéric Patricelli,E-business and e-challenges, page133:
        This sort of relationship can improve quality of transportation and can help in negotiations between transportation providers and transportationproduct users.
      • 2006, Teresa Luckey with Joseph Phillips,Software project management for dummies, page55:
        You can't create a stellar softwareproduct unless you know what it is supposed to do. You must work with the stakeholders to create theproduct scope.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Acommodity offered for sale.
    Synonyms:merchandise,wares,goods
    That store offers a variety ofproducts.  We've got to sell a lot ofproduct by the end of the month.
    1. (US, slang) Illegaldrugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
      I got someproduct here — you buying?
  3. (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, page153:
      He puts his fingers in Miller’s hair, which is greasy withproduct.
    Wash excessproduct out of your hair.

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  • 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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commodity for sale
amount created by a process
consequence of efforts
result of chemical reaction
multiplication result
any tangible output
illegal drugs as commodity
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See also

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Other terms used inarithmetic operations:

Advancedhyperoperations:tetration,pentation,hexation

Verb

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product (third-person singular simple presentproducts,present participleproducting,simple past and past participleproducted)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) Toproduce.
    • 1651,The Touchstone of Common Assurances, page498:
      The probate of a Testament is theproducting and insinuating of it before the Ecclesiastical Judge[]

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinprōductum.

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Noun

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product n (pluralproducten,diminutiveproductje n)

  1. product

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