product

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Something produced by human or mechanical effort or by a natural process.
2. n. A direct result; a consequence: "Is history the product of impersonal social and economic forces?” ( Anthony Lewis).
3. n. Chemistry A substance resulting from a chemical reaction.
4. n. Mathematics The number or quantity obtained by multiplying two or more numbers together.
5. n. Mathematics A scalar product.
6. n. Mathematics A vector product.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To bring forward; produce.
2. In entomology, to draw out; lengthen.
3. n. That which is produced; a production. A thing which is produced by nature, as fruits or grain-crops; what is yielded by the soil: as, the agricultural products of a country.
4. n. Offspring.
5. n. That which is formed or produced by labor, usually by physical labor.
6. n. Effect; result; something resulting as a consequence.
7. n. In mathematics, the result of multiplying one quantity or expression by another. Thus, 72 is the product of 8 multiplied by 9; and dy dx is the product of y multiplied by the operator d dx. The quantities multiplied together arc usually termed factors. Product results from multiplication, as sum. does from addition.
8. n. In chem., a compound not previously existing in a body, but formed during decomposition: as, the products of destructive distillation: contradistinguished from educt.
9. n. Set off from their intersection-point the unit sect on one of two perpendicular straights. On the other set off on one ray a, on the other b. The circle through the free end-points of 1, a, b determines on the fourth ray a sect, c, which is the product of the sect a by the sect b. Thus c = ab.
10. n. If the sects are taken as coplanarand confined to two straights, their product is the area of the parallelogram determined.

Wiktionary

1. n. countable, uncountable A commodity offered for sale.
2. n. The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
3. n. A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
4. n. chemistry A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
5. n. mathematics A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
6. n. category theory categorical product
7. n. Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
8. n. The outcome or 'thingness' of an activity, especially in contrast to a process by which it was created or altered.
9. n. US, slang Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes
2. n. (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. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.
3. v. obsolete, obsolete To produce; to bring forward.
4. v. obsolete To lengthen out; to extend.
5. v. obsolete To produce; to make.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a quantity obtained by multiplication
2. n. a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances
3. n. the set of elements common to two or more sets
4. n. a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction
5. n. an artifact that has been created by someone or some process
6. n. commodities offered for sale