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| 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.
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[in-ter-sek-shuhn] | 1. | a place where two or more roads meet, esp. when at least one is a major highway; junction. |
| 2. | any place of intersection or the act or fact of intersecting. |
| 3. | Mathematics.
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| prod·uct (prŏd'əkt) n.
[Middle English, result of multiplication, produced, from Medieval Latin prōductum, result of multiplication, from neuter past participle of Latin prōdūcere, to bring forth; see produce.] |
product prod·uct (prŏd'əkt)
n.
Something produced by human or mechanical effort or by a natural process.
A substance resulting from a chemical reaction.
product mathematics, programming
An expression in mathematics or computer programming consisting of two other expressions multiplied together. In mathematics, multiplication is usually represented by juxtaposition, e.g. "x y", whereas in programming, "*" is used as an infix operator, e.g. "salary * tax_rate.
In the most common type of product, each operand is a number (integer, real number, fraction or imaginary number) but the term extends naturally to cover more complex operations like multiplying a string by an integer (e.g., in Perl, "foo" x 2) or multiplying vectors and matrices or more than two operands.
In type systems, a tuple is sometimes known as a "product type".
(2006-10-12)
