PRODUCT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does product mean? 

• PRODUCT (noun)
  The noun PRODUCT has 6 senses:

1. commodities offered for sale

2. an artifact that has been created by someone or some process

3. a quantity obtained by multiplication

4. a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction

5. a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances

6. the set of elements common to two or more sets

  Familiarity information: PRODUCT used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRODUCT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Commodities offered for sale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

merchandise; product; ware

Context example:

that store offers a variety of products

Hypernyms ("product" is a kind of...):

commodity; good; trade good (articles of commerce)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "product"):

contraband (goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law)

cargo; consignment; freight; lading; load; loading; payload; shipment (goods carried by a large vehicle)

piece goods; yard goods (merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard)

top of the line (the best (most expensive) in a given line of merchandise)

inventory; stock (the merchandise that a shop has on hand)

software package; software product (merchandise consisting of a computer program that is offered for sale)

dreck; schlock; shlock (merchandise that is shoddy or inferior)

release (merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film))

refill (a commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents)

number (an item of clothing)

business line; line; line of business; line of merchandise; line of products; product line (a particular kind of product or merchandise)

irregular; second (merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name)

ironmongery (the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop)

generic (any product that can be sold without a brand name)

feature (an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles)

Holonyms ("product" is a part of...):

mercantile establishment; outlet; retail store; sales outlet (a place of business for retailing goods)

Derivation:

produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An artifact that has been created by someone or some process

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

product; production

Context example:

they export most of their agricultural production

Hypernyms ("product" is a kind of...):

creation (an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "product"):

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)

book (a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge)

fruit; yield (an amount of a product)

piece of work; work (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing)

turnery (products made on a lathe)

output; outturn; turnout (what is produced in a given time period)

newspaper; paper (the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher)

magazine (product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object)

job (an object worked on; a result produced by working)

brainchild; inspiration (a product of your creative thinking and work)

end product; output (final product; the things produced)

deliverable (something that can be provided as the product of development)

by-product; byproduct; spin-off (a product made during the manufacture of something else)

book; volume (physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together)

Derivation:

produce (create or manufacture a man-made product)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A quantity obtained by multiplication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

mathematical product; product

Context example:

the product of 2 and 3 is 6

Hypernyms ("product" is a kind of...):

quantity (the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "product"):

factorial (the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer)

multiple (the product of a quantity by an integer)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Context example:

a product of lime and nitric acid

Hypernyms ("product" is a kind of...):

chemical; chemical substance (material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "product"):

hydrolysate (a product of hydrolysis)

filtrate (the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Context example:

his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue

Hypernyms ("product" is a kind of...):

consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)

Derivation:

produce (cause to happen, occur or exist)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The set of elements common to two or more sets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Cartesian product; intersection; product

Context example:

the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things

Hypernyms ("product" is a kind of...):

set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)

 Context examples 

It might be a product introduction, a new love relationship, or friendship.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A date until which the medical product retains its properties within specified limits, and resists conditions that may affect its stated performance.

(Medical Product Stability Date, NCI Thesaurus)

After the end of the product shelf life it is not to be used.

(Medical Product Shelf Life, NCI Thesaurus)

The end result is that there’s no way to know whether the products you’re looking at contain high flavanol levels.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Substances such as BPA form part of the structure of these materials or have been added to improve the characteristics of the product.

(Babies in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to harmful chemical substances found in plastic, University of Granada)

Indicates that a product is currently being promoted for use.

(Actively Marketed, NCI Thesaurus)

This includes safety issues involving people or products.

(Adverse Event Sub-Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

The product is expected to undergo clinical testing by the end of next year and be made available in the market in 2020.

(New HIV medicine under development for children in Brazil, Agência Brasil/EBC)

The distinguishing qualities of a medical product.

(Medical Product Characteristics, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a product of genetic and environmental factors acting together.

(International Research Team Finds Correlation Between Genetics and Obesity Is Modified by Diet, U.S. Department of Agriculture)