Product

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: prod=uct

CIDE DICTIONARY

Product, n. [L. productus, p. pr. of producere. See Produce.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "There are the product
  Of those ill-mated marriages."  [1913 Webster]

  "These institutions are the products of enthusiasm."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Produce; production; fruit; result; effect; consequence; outcome; work; performance.

Product, v. t. 

•  To produce; to bring forward.  Foxe.  [1913 Webster]
•  To lengthen out; to extend.  [1913 Webster]

  "He that doth much . . . products his mortality."  [1913 Webster]
•  To produce; to make.  Holinshed.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Product, n.
1 a thing or substance produced by natural process or manufacture.
2 a result (the product of their labours).
3 Math. a quantity obtained by multiplying quantities together.

Etymology

ME f. L productum, neut. past part. of producere PRODUCE

THESAURUS

Product

account, aftermath, aggregate, amount, article, article of commerce, article of merchandise, bearing, box score, bumper crop, by-product, cast, commodity, consequence, consequent, corollary, count, crop, derivation, derivative, development, difference, distillate, drug, effect, event, eventuality, eventuation, fallout, feature, fruit, goods, handiwork, harvest, issue, item, lead item, leader, legacy, logical outcome, loss leader, make, merchandise, number, offering, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, output, precipitate, proceeds, produce, production, quantity, reckoning, result, resultant, score, second crop, seconds, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, special, spin-off, standard article, staple, staple item, sum, summation, tale, tally, the bottom line, the story, the whole story, total, turnout, upshot, vendible, vintage, ware, whole, work, x number, yield

ROGET THESAURUS

Product

Increase

N increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension, dilatation, increment, accretion, accession, development, growth, aggrandizement, aggravation, rise, ascent, exaggeration exacerbation, spread, flood tide, gain, produce, product, profit, increased, on the increase, undiminished, additional, crescendo, vires acquirit eundo.

Number

N number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer, counter, round number, formula, function, series, sum, difference, complement, subtrahend, product, multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator, coefficient, multiple, dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction, rational number, surd, irrational number, transcendental number, mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate, numerator, denominator, decimal, circulating decimal, repetend, common measure, aliquot part, prime number, prime, relative prime, prime factor, prime pair, reciprocal, totient, binary number, octal number, hexadecimal number, permutation, combination, variation, election, ratio, proportion, comparison, progression, arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression, percentage, permilage, figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers, power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm, modulus, base, differential, integral, fluxion, fluent, numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable, proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive, positive, negative, rational, irrational, surd, radical, real, complex, imaginary, finite, infinite, impossible, numerically, modulo.

Acquisition

N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.

Merchandise

N merchandise, ware, commodity, effects, goods, article, stock, product, produce, staple commodity, stock in trade, cargo.

Effect

N effect, consequence, aftergrowth, aftercome, derivative, derivation, result, resultant, resultance, upshot, issue, denouement, end, development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud, production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance, creature, creation, offspring, offshoot, firstfruits, firstlings, heredity, telegony, premices premises, owing to, resulting from, derivable from, due to, caused by, dependent upon, derived from, evolved from, derivative, hereditary, telegonous, of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently, as a consequence, in consequence, through, all along of, necessarily, eventually, cela va sans dire, thereby hangs a tale.