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Webster 1913 Edition


Product

Prod′uct

,
Noun.
[L.
productus
, p. pr. of
producere
. See
Produce
.]
1.
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.
2.
(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.

Pro-duct′

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To produce; to bring forward.
“Producted to . . . examination.”
[Obs.]
Foxe.
2.
To lengthen out; to extend.
[Obs.]
He that doth much . . .
products
his mortality.
Hackett.
3.
To produce; to make.
[Obs.]
Holinshed.

Webster 1828 Edition


Product

PROD'UCT

,
Noun.
[L. productus, from produco.]
1.
That which is produced by nature, as fruits, grain, metals; as the product of land; the products of the season.
2.
That which is formed or produced by labor or by mental application; as the products of manufacturers, of commerce or of art; the products of great and wise men. In the latter sense, production is now generally used.
In general, products comprehends whatever is produced or made; as when we speak of the products of a country exported.
The product of the impost and excise.
3.
Effect; result; something consequential.
These are the product
Of those ill mated marriages.
4.
In arithmetic, the amount of two or more numbers multiplied. Thus 5x7=35, the product. Product results from multiplication, as sum does from addition.
5.
In geometry, the factum of two or more lines.