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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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Product : \Prod"uct\, n. [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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Product : \Pro*duct"\, v. t.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Product :
See tuple.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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