product

American  

[prod-uhkt, -uhkt] / ˈprɒd əkt, -ʌkt /

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.

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product British  

/ 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 called: set product.  another name for intersection

7. See Cartesian product

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product Scientific  

/ prŏd′əkt /

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

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Other Word Forms

• multiproduct
  adjective
• subproduct
  noun

Etymology

Origin of product

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

Explanation

When you start making something, the result is a product. Most products are offered for sale, like dairy products at the grocery store or kitchen products at Macy's. The word product is often a synonym for "merchandise" — the stuff for sale on the racks and shelves at a store. But a product can also simply be the result or consequence of someone's efforts or a set of circumstances. A good report card is the product of hard work. You are the product of your parent's relationship. And an aging hippie who still wears bell bottoms may be described as a product of the sixties.

Example Sentences

Garman, who had interned at Amazon, joined AWS out of grad school, becoming its first product manager, one of many roles on the way to becoming CEO in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Stable consumer spending, plus a big surge in business investment in artificial intelligence, could lead to robust second-quarter growth based on the official scorecard for the economy known as gross domestic product.

From MarketWatch • May 16, 2026

While the trial was under way, SpaceX announced a deal to lease computing power to OpenAI’s fiercest rival, Anthropic, which had found itself constrained after its Claude Code product took off.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

The largest U.S. airline has opted External link for Amazon.com’s space-based broadband product, called Amazon Leo, instead of SpaceX’s Starlink.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

He still didn’t know Oleg Penkovsky’s name, but now, more than ever, the value of the spy’s product was clear.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Related Words

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