product
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prod·uct
(prŏd'əkt) 
n.
n.
- Something produced by human or mechanical effort or by a natural process.
- A direct result; a consequence: "Is history the product of impersonal social and economic forces?" (Anthony Lewis).
- Chemistry. A substance resulting from a chemical reaction.
- Mathematics.
- The number or quantity obtained by multiplying two or more numbers together.
- A scalar product.
- A vector product.
[Middle English, result of multiplication, produced, from Medieval Latin prōductum, result of multiplication, from neuter past participle of Latin prōdūcere, to bring forth. See produce.]
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by-product
Merchandise sold by periodical publishers that is incidental to the publication itself, such as back issue binders, calendars, tote bags, and books.
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product
Item emerging from a single production process that has a relatively low sales value in comparison with the firm's main or joint products. Examples of by-products are sawdust or wood chips in lumber mill operations. Because the relative value of by-products is not very important, it is usually considered undesirable to use a refined accounting method in dealing with by-product costs. Generally, the sales value of by-products is used to reduce the cost of the main products.
An alternative accounting approach is to treat the sales value of the by-products as "other revenue."
An alternative accounting approach is to treat the sales value of the by-products as "other revenue."
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product
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Definition: result or goods created
Antonyms: cause, resource
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- (in biochemistry and chemistry) something formed in a reaction.
- (in mathematics) the result of multiplying together two or more numbers, quantities, or expressions.
| produce, prodrug, procyclin | |
| product inhibition, productive, productive binding |
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categories related to 'product'
- Quantities, Relationships, and Operations - product: result of multiplication
- Substances, Particles, and Atomic Architecture - product: new substance formed by chemical reaction
- Performance, Airplay, and the Recording Industry - product: record or tape to be sold; music in general
- Movie People and Show Business - product: film idea, script, novel, or completed film
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Product (mathematics)
In mathematics, a product is the result of multiplying, or an expression that identifies factors to be multiplied. The order in which real or complex numbers are multiplied has no bearing on the product; this is known as the commutative law of multiplication. When matrices or members of various other associative algebras are multiplied, the product usually depends on the order of the factors. Matrix multiplication, and the multiplications in the other algebras, are non-commutative.
The product operator for the product of a sequence is denoted by the capital Greek letter Pi ∏ (in analogy to the use of the capital Sigma ∑ as summation symbol). The product of no factors at all is known as the empty product.
Several products are considered in mathematics:
- Products of the various classes of numbers
- The product of matrices and vectors:
- The product of tensors:
- The pointwise product of two functions.
- A function's product integral (as a continuous equivalent to the product of a sequence or the multiplicative version of the (normal/standard/additive) integral. The product integral is also known as "continuous product" or "multiplical".
- It is often possible to form the product of two (or more) mathematical objects to form another object of the same kind, e.g.
- the Cartesian product of sets,
- the product of groups, and also the semidirect product, knit product and wreath product,
- the product of rings,
- the product of topological spaces,
- the Wick product of random variables.
- the cap, cup and slant product in algebraic topology.
- the smash product and wedge sum (sometimes called the wedge product) in homotopy.
- For the general treatment, see product (category theory). But also, in category theory, one has:
- the fiber product or pullback,
- the ultraproduct, in model theory.
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Product
Dansk (Danish)
n. - produkt, resultat
Nederlands (Dutch)
product, opbrengst, uitkomst van een vermenigvuldiging, resultaat
Français (French)
n. - produit, produit de, résultat, (Math) produit
Deutsch (German)
n. - Produkt, Erzeugnis, Produktion
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - προϊόν, αποτέλεσμα, (μαθημ.) γινόμενο, (χημ.) παράγωγο
Português (Portuguese)
n. - produto (m)
Русский (Russian)
продукт, изделие, результат, произведение
Español (Spanish)
n. - producto, producción, resultado
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - vara, alster, verk, frukt, produkt
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
产品, 成绩, 结果
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 產品, 成績, 結果
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 産物, 製品, 作品, 結果, 生成物, 積, 生産物, 物産
idioms:
- product recall 商品のリコール
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) حاصل الضرب, نتاج
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מוצר, תוצרת, תוצר, תולדה, תוצאה, פרי-יצירה, מכפלה
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