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Dictionary: prod·uct   (prŏd'əkt) pronunciation
n.
  1. Something produced by human or mechanical effort or by a natural process.
  2. A direct result; a consequence: "Is history the product of impersonal social and economic forces?" (Anthony Lewis).
  3. Chemistry. A substance resulting from a chemical reaction.
  4. Mathematics.
    1. The number or quantity obtained by multiplying two or more numbers together.
    2. A scalar product.
    3. 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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Marketing Dictionary: by-product
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Merchandise sold by periodical publishers that is incidental to the publication itself, such as back issue binders, calendars, tote bags, and books.

Accounting Dictionary: By-Product
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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."

Thesaurus: product
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noun

    Something produced by human effort: production. See make/unmake.

Antonyms: product
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n

Definition: result or goods created
Antonyms: cause, resource


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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Something manufactured usually for selling. Also: A number that is the result of multiplying.

pronunciation The work of art is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product. — Paul Klee (1879-1940)

Wikipedia: Product (mathematics)
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In mathematics, a product is the result of multiplying, or an expression that identifies factors to be multiplied. The order in 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; in other words, matrix multiplication, and the multiplications in those 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).

Several products are considered in mathematics:

  • Products of the various classes of numbers

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Translations: Product
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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

Italiano (Italian)
prodotto

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

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 산물, 생산품

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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