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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

product
     n 1: commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on
          having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety
          of products" [syn: merchandise, wares]
     2: the amount of an artifact that has been created by someone
        or some process; "they improve their product every year";
        "they export most of their agricultural production" [syn:
        production]
     3: a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of
        circumstances; "skill is the product of hours of
        practice"; "his reaction was the product of hunger and
        fatigue"
     4: a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical
        reaction; "a product of lime and nitric acid"
     5: a quantity obtained by multiplication; "the product of 2 and
        3 is 6" [syn: mathematical product]
     6: the set of elements common to two or more sets; "the set of
        red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the
        set of red things" [syn: intersection]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Product \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.
Product \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.

Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

product

   See tuple.