product

[ prod-uhkt, -uhkt ]

noun

1. a thing produced by labor:

   products of farm and factory;

   the product of his thought.

2. a person or thing produced by or resulting from a process, as a natural, social, or historical one; result:

   He is a product of his time.

3. the totality of goods or services that a company makes available; output:

   a decrease in product during the past year.

4. Chemistry. a substance obtained from another substance through chemical change.
5. Mathematics.
   1. the result obtained by multiplying two or more quantities together.
   2. intersection ( def 3a ).

product

/ ˈprɒdʌkt /

noun

1. something produced by effort, or some mechanical or industrial process
2. the result of some natural process
3. a result or consequence
4. a substance formed in a chemical reaction
5. any substance used to style hair, such as gel, wax, mousse, or hairspray
6. maths
   1. the result of the multiplication of two or more numbers, quantities, etc
   2. Also calledset product another name for intersection
7. See Cartesian product
   See Cartesian product

product

/ prŏd′əkt /

1. A number or quantity obtained by multiplication. For example, the product of 3 and 7 is 21.

Other Words From

• multi·product adjective
• subproduct noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of product¹

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Latin prōductum “(thing) produced,” neuter of past participle of prōdūcere “to lead forward”; produce

Word History and Origins

Origin of product¹

C15: from Latin prōductum (something) produced, from prōdūcere to bring forth

Example Sentences

The company is currently shooting for a product launch in May of next year.

From TechCrunch

The financing will be used to grow InsideSherpa’s staff, with more engineering, product and sales roles.

From TechCrunch

The product is multifunctional and has a ton of uses as a stand-alone product.

From Essence.com

Making the most of that work — translating a successful clinical product into real-world progress — will require some patience.

From Axios

She notes that Google does pollution monitoring and that IKEA has started buying up crop stubble, which is typically burned and a major source of pollution in India, to turn into products.

From Fortune

Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.

From The Daily Beast

The billionaire philanthropist tastes the product of a machine that processes human sewage into drinking water and electricity.

From The Daily Beast

Bitcoin began 2013 with a roaring price of $770 per unit, and businesses right and left were converting to the ethereal product.

From The Daily Beast

And, with Coca-Cola announcing the launch of a new milk product, the beverage could be back in our hands before we know it.

From The Daily Beast

The resulting product included four single-cask variants along with finished pictures of McKidd enjoying a glass of The Macallan.

From The Daily Beast

It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.

From Project Gutenberg

The product is then multiplied by the number of cubic centimeters voided in twenty-four hours and divided by 1000.

From Project Gutenberg

I should judge that a peck of corn is about the average product of a day's work through all this region.

From Project Gutenberg

I suspect, from the evident care taken of it, that its product is considerably relied on for food.

From Project Gutenberg

Virginia leaf still continues to flourish, and to-day it is the great agricultural product of the State.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• amount
• brand
• commodity
• crop
• device
• fruit
• merchandise
• output
• produce
• production
• profit
• stock
• work