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prod·uct / ˈprädəkt/ • n. 1. an article or substance that is manufactured or refined for sale: marketing products and services dairy products. ∎  a substance produced during a natural, chemical, or manufacturing process: waste products. ∎  a thing or person that is the result of an action or process: his daughter, the product of his first marriage. ∎  a person whose character and identity have been formed by a particular period or situation: an aging academic who is a product of the 1960s. ∎  commercially manufactured articles, esp. recordings, viewed collectively: too much product of too little quality.2. Math. a quantity obtained by multiplying quantities together, or from an analogous algebraic operation.

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