production
See also: Production
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). See produce.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]production (countable and uncountable, plural productions)
- The act of producing, making or creating something. [from 15th c.]
- The widget making machine is being used for production now.
- The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration. [from 15th c.]
- 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Lost Sanjak”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, pages 16–17:
- I tramped to a neighbouring market-town, and, late as the hour was, the production of a few shillings procured me supper and a night's lodging in a cheap coffee-house.
- The act of being produced.
- The widgets are coming out of production now.
- The total amount produced.
- They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.
- 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 136:
- The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
- The presentation of a theatrical work.
- We went to a production of Hamlet.
- An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
- He made a simple meal into a huge production.
- That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
- This is the final production model.
- The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
- (zoology) An extension or protrusion.
- (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
- Each production is implemented with a function.
- (programming, uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
- production environment
- live production database
- (Scots law, in the plural) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
- (linguistics) 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.
Derived terms
[edit]- agroproduction
- anarchy of production
- autoproduction
- batch production
- bioproduction
- burden of production
- coproduction
- co-production
- desiring-production
- electroproduction
- eroduction
- factor of production
- flow production
- hadroproduction
- hyperproduction
- hypoproduction
- industrial livestock production
- job production
- leptoproduction
- make a production out of
- mass production
- means of production
- misproduction
- mode of production
- multiproduction
- nanoproduction
- nonproduction
- osteoproduction
- overproduction
- pair production
- photoproduction
- post-production
- pre-production
- preproduction
- primary production
- productionable
- productional
- production baby
- production brigade
- production car
- production code
- production externality
- productionisation
- productionise, productionize
- productionist
- productionless
- production line
- production means
- production model
- production order
- production possibility curve
- production record
- production team
- production value
- productionwise
- produsage
- prosumption
- relation of production
- relations of production
- reproduction
- request for production
- underproduction
- unproduction
Descendants
[edit]- → Japanese: プロダクション (purodakushon)
Translations
[edit]the act of producing
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the act of being produced
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the total amount produced
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the presentation of a theatrical work
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an occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary
that which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin productiōnem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]production f (plural productions)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Dutch: productie
Further reading
[edit]- “production”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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