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production.

The act of producing, making or creating something.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/pɹəˈdʌkʃən/General-American/pɹəˈdʌkʃn̩/Received-Pronunciation
  1. The act of producing, making or creating something.

    countable · uncountable
    The widget making machine is being used for production now.
  2. The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.

    countable · uncountable
  3. The act of being produced.

    countable · uncountable
    The widgets are coming out of production now.
  4. The total amount produced.

    countable · uncountable
    They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.
  5. The presentation of a theatrical work.

    countable · uncountable
    If you get the chance, try and catch the new production of "Hamlet."
  6. An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.

    countable · uncountable
    He made a simple meal into a huge production.
  7. That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).

    countable · uncountable
    This is the final production model.
  8. The act of lengthening out or prolonging.

    countable · uncountable
  9. An extension or protrusion.

    countable · uncountable
  10. A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)

    countable · uncountable
    Each production is implemented with a function.
  11. The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.

    uncountable
    production environment
    live production database
  12. Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.

    countable · in-plural · uncountable
  13. Writing viewed as the process of producing a text in any medium (written, spoken, signed, multimodal, nonverbal), consisting of several steps such as conceptualization, formulation, expression and revision.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *pró Proto-Indo-European *pro- Proto-Italic *pro- Latin prō- Proto-Indo-European *dewk- Proto-Indo-European *déwkti Proto-Italic *doukō Latin dūcō Latin prōdūcō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin prōductiōder. Old French productionbor. Middle English produccioun English production From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). Equivalent to produce + -tion. See produce.

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