Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Product \Pro*duct"\, v. t.
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1. To produce; to bring forward. "Producted to . . .
examination." [Obs.] --Foxe.
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2. To lengthen out; to extend. [Obs.]
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He that doth much . . . products his mortality.
--Hackett.
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3. To produce; to make. [Obs.] --Holinshed.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Product \Prod"uct\, n. [L. productus, p. pr. of producere. See
Produce.]
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1. Anything that is produced, whether as the result of
generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation
of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or
of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of
the brain.
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There are the product
Of those ill-mated marriages. --Milton.
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These institutions are the products of enthusiasm.
--Burke.
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2. (Math.) The number or sum obtained by adding one number or
quantity to itself as many times as there are units in
another number; the number resulting from the
multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of
the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result
of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under
Multiplication.
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Syn: Produce; production; fruit; result; effect; consequence;
outcome; work; performance.
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product
n 1: commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on
having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of
products" [syn: merchandise, ware, product]
2: an artifact that has been created by someone or some process;
"they improve their product every year"; "they export most of
their agricultural production" [syn: product, production]
3: a quantity obtained by multiplication; "the product of 2 and
3 is 6" [syn: product, mathematical product]
4: a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical
reaction; "a product of lime and nitric acid"
5: 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"
6: the set of elements common to two or more sets; "the set of
red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set
of red things" [syn: intersection, product, Cartesianproduct]
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "product":
account, aftermath, aggregate, amount, article,
article of commerce, article of merchandise, bearing, box score,
bumper crop, by-product, cast, commodity, consequence, consequent,
corollary, count, crop, derivation, derivative, development,
difference, distillate, drug, effect, event, eventuality,
eventuation, fallout, feature, fruit, goods, handiwork, harvest,
issue, item, lead item, leader, legacy, logical outcome,
loss leader, make, merchandise, number, offering, offshoot,
offspring, outcome, outgrowth, output, precipitate, proceeds,
produce, production, quantity, reckoning, result, resultant, score,
second crop, seconds, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, special,
spin-off, standard article, staple, staple item, sum, summation,
tale, tally, the bottom line, the story, the whole story, total,
turnout, upshot, vendible, vintage, ware, whole, work, x number,
yield
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 July 2010)
product
An expression in mathematics or
computer programming consisting of two other expressions
multiplied together. In mathematics, multiplication is
usually represented by juxtaposition, e.g. "x y", whereas in
programming, "*" is used as an infix operator, e.g. "salary
* tax_rate.
In the most common type of product, each operand is a number
(integer, real number, fraction or imaginary number)
but the term extends naturally to cover more complex
operations like multiplying a string by an integer (e.g., in
Perl, "foo" x 2) or multiplying vectors and matrices or
more than two operands.
In type systems, a tuple is sometimes known as a "product
type".
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