n.
- an article or substance manufactured or refined for sale.
▸a substance produced during a natural, chemical, or manufacturing process.
- a result of an action or process.
▸a person whose character has been formed by a particular period or situation:
a product of the 1960s.
- Mathematics a quantity obtained by multiplying quantities together, or from an analogous algebraic operation.
Etymology
ME: from L. productum ‘something produced’, neut. past part. (used as n.) of producere (see produce).