Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PROD'UCT
PROD'UCT, n. [L. productus, from produco; Fr. produit.]
- That which is produced by nature, as fruits, grain, metals; as, the product of land; the products of the season.
- That which is formed or produced by labor or by mental application; as, the products of manufactures, of commerce or of art; the products of great and wise men. In the latter sense, production is now generally used. In general, products comprehend whatever is produced or made; as when we speak of the products of a country exported. The product of the import and excise. – Belknap. N. Hamp.
- Effect; result; something consequential. These are the product / Of those ill mated marriages. – Milton.
- In arithmetic, the amount of two or more numbers multiplied. Thus 5x7=35, the product. Product results from multiplication, as sum does from addition.
- In geometry, the factum of two or more lines.
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