direct product

noun

, Mathematics.

a group, or other such system, every element of which can be written uniquely as the product of elements of disjoint groups, with each group contributing one element to the product.

First recorded in 1920–25

Sergei Khruschev is a direct product of the bond between Russian and Ukraine; his mother was Ukrainian and his father was Russian.

The truest morality and the highest spirituality are both the direct product of Gods revelation.

They are the direct product of its energy, its foresight and its business sagacity.

Status, as distinguished from institutions and contract, is a direct product of the mores.

We must concede, however, that in many instances the teacher's unfitness is a direct product of the pernicious system itself.

The minstrel was the direct product of the slave-time singer and entertainer.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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