 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
product
noun
1: commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on
having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety
of products" [syn: {merchandise}, {wares}]
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: {production}]
3: 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"
4: a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical
reaction; "a product of lime and nitric acid"
5: a quantity obtained by multiplication; "the product of 2 and
3 is 6" [syn: {mathematical product}]
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}, {cartesian
product}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Product \Pro*duct"\, verb (used with an object)
1. To produce; to bring forward. ''Producted to . . .
examination.'' [Obs.] --Foxe.
2. To lengthen out; to extend. [Obs.]
He that doth much . . . products his mortality.
--Hackett.
3. To produce; to make. [Obs.] --Holinshed.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Product \Prod"uct\, noun [L. productus, p. pr. of producere. See
{Produce}.]
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.
There are the product
Of those ill-mated marriages. --Milton.
These institutions are the products of enthusiasm.
--Burke.
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}.
Syn: Produce; production; fruit; result; effect; consequence;
outcome; work; performance.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
product
See {tuple}.
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