[syn: intersection, product, Cartesian product]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
product
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)