# product

Pronunciation: US say "PRAH-duhkt" /ˈpɹɑ.dəkt/; UK say "PROD-uhkt" /ˈpɹɒd.əkt/

## Noun

1. Something that is made or grown and offered for sale, or a service, such as insurance, that a business sells.
   - Simple: Something a company makes, grows, or offers for people to buy, such as a phone, food, or a service.
   - _The company's flagship product earns most of its yearly revenue._
   - _Retailers stock these products on the lowest shelves._
2. Something that is produced by a process, or that results from someone's efforts or from particular circumstances.
   - Simple: The thing that comes from a process, from hard work, or from a situation.
   - _Rich soil is the product of centuries of decaying plant matter._
   - _This sculpture is the product of months of careful carving._
3. A preparation applied to the hair, skin, or nails, especially one used to hold hair in a desired arrangement.
   - Simple: A cream, gel, or spray that you put on your hair, skin, or nails.
   - _He uses very little product, just enough to keep his curls in place._
   - _The stylist worked some product through her hair before the shoot._
6. The quantity obtained by multiplying two or more numbers together.
   - Simple: The number you get when you multiply two or more numbers together.
   - _The product of 6 and 7 is 42._
   - _The worksheet asks students to find the product of each pair of numbers._
4. A substance newly formed when a chemical reaction takes place.
   - Simple: A new substance made during a chemical reaction.
   - _Carbon dioxide is a common product of combustion._
   - _Chemists measured how much product the reaction yielded._
5. The total amount of goods, material, or services produced by a person, business, economy, or process.
   - Simple: How much of something has been made by a person or process.
   - _When the firm doubled its workforce without buying more machines, its total product rose by only about a third._
   - _After the region's gross domestic product shrank for two quarters in a row, officials warned that a recession had begun._
7. Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, viewed as a commodity to be bought and sold. *(slang, US)*
   - Simple: Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when sold like goods.
   - _The crew moved their product through a network of street corners._
   - _He cut the product before selling it to buyers downtown._

## Verb

8. To bring something into being; to produce. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To make something or bring it into being.

## Other meanings

- (noun) An operation, or its result, that generalizes the multiplication of numbers, such as multiplication in a ring or a categorical product.

## Origin

Latin prōductus, the perfect participle of prōdūcō, came into Middle English as product. Its earliest recorded English use was the mathematical one.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/product (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).