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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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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


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”; produce

Example Sentences

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In fact, we estimate permanent expensing for short-lived investments and R&D will lift long-run gross domestic product by 0.7% as investment grows.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

OpenAI isn’t the first big nonmedia company to buy into a media product.

From Slate • Apr. 7, 2026

It does that via its "foreign direct product rule", which forces foreign companies to align with US rules if the goods they are exporting contain US parts, or are derived from US technology.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Greta Schlender, 41, senior product manager: We’re doing Army crawling on the beach.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Most researchers believe that these unprecedented accomplishments were the product of a revolution in Sapiens’ cognitive abilities.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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