Something that is made or grown to be sold or used. In math, it also means the result you get when you multiply numbers together.
From Latin *productum* meaning 'something produced', from *producere* 'to bring forth'. It came into English via French, keeping the sense of a result that has been made.
A product is the visible result of many hidden choices: design, labor, materials, and values. In math, the 'product' of numbers is another kind of result, built by multiplication. The word quietly teaches that what you see at the end is never the whole story.
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