product
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin prōductus, perfect participle of prōdūcō, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.
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Noun[edit]
product (countable and uncountable; plural products)
- (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.
- That store offers a variety of products.
- We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month.
- The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
- They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production.
- 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.
- (chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
- This is a product of lime and nitric acid.
- (mathematics) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
- The product of 2 and 3 is 6.
- The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24.
- (category theory) categorical product
- 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; Kevin Keasey, The future of retail banking in Europe, page 146:
- Product innovation is needed to meet changes in society and its requirements for particular types of banking product.
- 2002, Veljko Milutinović; Frédéric Patricelli, E-business and e-challenges, page 133:
- This sort of relationship can improve quality of transportation and can help in negotiations between transportation providers and transportation product users.
- 2006, Teresa Luckey; Joseph Phillips, Software project management for dummies, page 55:
- 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.
- 2002, Oonagh McDonald; Kevin Keasey, The future of retail banking in Europe, page 146:
- The outcome or 'thingness' of an activity, especially in contrast to a process by which it was created or altered.
- This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
- (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
- I got some product here – you buying?
Usage notes[edit]
- 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.
Synonyms[edit]
- (items for sale): merchandise, wares, goods
- (amount created by a process): production, output, creation
Derived terms[edit]
- by-product
- categorical product
- end product
- finished product
- gross domestic product, gross national product
- product placement
- product recall
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
commodity for sale
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amount created by a process
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consequence of efforts
result of chemical reaction
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multiplication result
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any tangible output
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See also[edit]
- addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total)
- subtraction: (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
- division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
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Noun[edit]
product n (plural producten, diminutive productje)
