product Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun commodities offered for sale
ware; merchandise.
- good business depends on having good merchandise
- that store offers a variety of products
noun an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
production.
- they improve their product every year
- they export most of their agricultural production
noun a quantity obtained by multiplication
mathematical product.
- the product of 2 and 3 is 6
noun a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction
- a product of lime and nitric acid
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
noun the set of elements common to two or more sets
intersection; Cartesian product.
- the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things

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.
There are the product Of those ill-mated marriages. Milton.

These institutions are the products of enthusiasm. Burke.
(Math.) 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.

To produce; to bring forward. "Producted to . . . examination." Obs. Foxe.
To lengthen out; to extend. Obs.
He that doth much . . . products his mortality. Hackett.
To produce; to make. Obs. Holinshed.