Prod"uct (?), n. [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" (?), v. 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.
