different between product vs invention

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?ductus, perfect participle of pr?d?c?, first attested in English in the mathematics sense.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??d.?kt/, /?p??d.?kt/
• (General American) enPR: pr?d??kt, IPA^(key): /?p??d.?kt/, /?p??d.?kt/
• Hyphenation: prod?uct
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

product (countable and uncountable, plural products)

1. (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.

   Synonyms: merchandise, wares, goods

2. (cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.

3. Anything that is produced; a result.
   1. The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.

      Synonyms: endwork, production, output, creation, yield

   2. A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.

   3. (chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.

   5. (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.

   6. (mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.
   7. Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
4. (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "product": excellent, good, great, inferior, crappy, broken, defective, cheap, expensive, reliable, safe, dangerous, useful, valuable, useless, domestic, national, agricultural, industrial, financial.

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See also

• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

Verb

product (third-person singular simple present products, present participle producting, simple past and past participle producted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To produce.
   • 1651, The Touchstone of Common Assurances (page 498)

     The probate of a Testament is the producting and insinuating of it before the Ecclesiastical Judge […]

Dutch

Alternative forms

• (before 1996) produkt

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?ductum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro??d?kt/
• Hyphenation: pro?duct
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

product n (plural producten, diminutive productje n)

1. product

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Descendants

• Afrikaans: produk
• ? Indonesian: produk

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French invencion, envention, from the Latin inventi?, from inveni?. Doublet of inventio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?v?n??n/

Noun

invention (countable and uncountable, plural inventions)

1. Something invented.

   (here signifying a process or mechanism not previously devised)

   (here signifying a fiction created for a particular purpose)

   • 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:

     Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long distance at half past six. […] Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention.
2. The act of inventing.
3. The capacity to invent.

4. (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
   • 1880, George Grove (editor and entry author), A Dictionary of Music and Musicians II, London: Macmillan & Co., page 15, Invention:

     INVENTION.?A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces?—?15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts?—?each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.

5. (archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

Synonyms

• discovery

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References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “invention”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inventi?, inventi?nem, from invenio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.v??.sj??/

Noun

invention f (plural inventions)

1. invention

Derived terms

• la nécessité est la mère de l'invention

Related terms

• inventer
• inventeur

Further reading

• “invention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).