product
See also: produc't
English
Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin prōductus, perfect participle of prōdūcō, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: prod‧uct
Audio (USA): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌkt
Noun
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.
- Synonyms: merchandise, wares, goods
- (cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
- Wash excess product out of your hair.
- Anything that is produced; a result.
- The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book Expression error: Unrecognized word "xi".”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, lines 683-84:
- To whom thus Michael: These are the product / Of those ill-mated marriages thou sawest;
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:
- These institutions are the products of enthusiasm; they are the instruments of wisdom.
- 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
- The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product 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 The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts.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”.
- 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.
- Synonyms: endwork, production, output, creation, yield
- 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.
- (arithmetic) 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.
- (mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a 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 with 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 with 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 with 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.
- (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
- I got some product here – you buying?
Usage notes
- 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.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
commodity for sale
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amount created by a process
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consequence of efforts
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result of chemical reaction
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multiplication result
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any tangible output
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illegal drugs as commodity
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See also
- 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
Dutch
Alternative forms
- (before 1996) produkt
Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin prōductum.
Pronunciation
Noun
product n (plural producten, diminutive productje n)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: produk
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