Category:Product

Prod"uct, n. Etym: [l. productus, p. pr. of producere. See produce.]

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. There are the product of those ill-mated marriages. Milton. These institutions are the products of enthusiasm. Burke.

2. (math.)

Defn: 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.

Syn. -- produce; production; fruit; result; effect; consequence; outcome; Work; performance.

Product Pro*duct", v. t.

1. To produce; to bring forward. "producted to . . . examination." [obs.] Foxe.

2. To lengthen out; to extend. [obs.] He that doth much. . . products his mortality. Hackett.

3. To produce; to make. [obs.] Holinshed.