Product

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}, {Cartesian
       product}]
    

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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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

   <mathematics, programming> 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".

   (2006-10-12)
    

87 Moby Thesaurus words for "product":
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      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