n. [ L. productus, p. pr. of producere. See Produce. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are the product
Of those ill-mated marriages. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

These institutions are the products of enthusiasm. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Produce; production; fruit; result; effect; consequence; outcome; work; performance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To produce; to bring forward. “Producted to . . . examination.” [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lengthen out; to extend. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He that doth much . . . products his mortality. Hackett. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To produce; to make. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being productible; producibility. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. productible. ] Capable of being produced; producible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. productilis, fr. producere to stretch out. ] Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. productio a lengthening, prolonging: cf. F. production. See Produce. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the productions of intellect or genius. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of lengthening out or prolonging. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Product; produce; fruit; work; performance; composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. productif, L. productivus fit for prolongation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements. [ 1913 Webster ]

And kindle with thy own productive fire. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Pro*duc"tive*ly, adv. -- Pro*duc"tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female producer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Product. ] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks. [ 1913 Webster ]