PRODUCT

merchandise, ware, product

(noun) commodities offered for sale; “good business depends on having good merchandise”; “that store offers a variety of products”

product, production

(noun) an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; “they improve their product every year”; “they export most of their agricultural production”

product, mathematical product

(noun) a quantity obtained by multiplication; “the product of 2 and 3 is 6”

intersection, product, Cartesian product

(noun) 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”

product

(noun) 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”

product

(noun) a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction; “a product of lime and nitric acid”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

product (countable and uncountable, plural products)

(countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.

Synonyms: merchandise, wares, goods

(cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.

Anything that is produced; a result.

The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.

Synonyms: endwork, production, output, creation, yield

A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.

(chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.

(arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.

(mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.

Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.

(US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "product": excellent, good, great, inferior, crappy, broken, defective, cheap, expensive, reliable, safe, dangerous, useful, valuable, useless, domestic, national, agricultural, industrial, financial.

Hyponyms

• end product

• finished product

• gross domestic product

• gross national product

• Cartesian product

• categorical product

• cross product

• dot product

• vector product

Verb

product (third-person singular simple present products, present participle producting, simple past and past participle producted)

(transitive, obsolete) To produce.

Source: Wiktionary


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.)

Definition: 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.

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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