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noun Mathematics.

a group, or other such system, every element of which can be written uniquely as the product of elements of disjoint groups, with each group contributing one element to the product.

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Origin of direct product

First recorded in 1920–25

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How to use direct product in a sentence

Sergei Khruschev is a direct product of the bond between Russian and Ukraine; his mother was Ukrainian and his father was Russian.
Khrushchev’s Son: “Russia Will Never Surrender”|Josh Rogin|April 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The truest morality and the highest spirituality are both the direct product of Gods revelation.
The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews|Thomas Charles Edwards
They are the direct product of its energy, its foresight and its business sagacity.
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World|Clifton R. Wooldridge
Status, as distinguished from institutions and contract, is a direct product of the mores.
Folkways|William Graham Sumner

We must concede, however, that in many instances the teacher's unfitness is a direct product of the pernicious system itself.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.)|W. Grant Hague, M.D.
The minstrel was the direct product of the slave-time singer and entertainer.
Charles Frohman: Manager and Man|Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman