product
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (6)
- commodities offered for sale“good business depends on having good merchandise”“that store offers a variety of products”Synonyms: merchandiseware
- 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: production
- a quantity obtained by multiplication“the product of 2 and 3 is 6”Synonyms: mathematical product
- a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction“a product of lime and nitric acid”
- 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”
- 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”Synonyms: intersectionCartesian product
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.To produce; to bring forward. "Producted to . . . examination." [Obs.] --Foxe. [1913 Webster]
2.To lengthen out; to extend. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
He that doth much . . . products his mortality.— Hackett.[1913 Webster]
3.To produce; to make. [Obs.] --Holinshed. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
There are the product Of those ill-mated marriages.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
These institutions are the products of enthusiasm.— Burke.[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
Syn: Produce; production; fruit; result; effect; consequence; outcome; work; performance. [1913 Webster]
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<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)