production
Sentences
Meaning
- (countable, uncountable) The act of producing, making or creating something.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of being produced.
- (countable, uncountable) The total amount produced.
- (countable, uncountable) The presentation of a theatrical work.
- (countable, uncountable) An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
- (countable, uncountable) That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
- (countable, uncountable) The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
- (countable, uncountable) An extension or protrusion.
- (countable, uncountable) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
- (uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
- (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
- (countable, uncountable) 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.
Synonyms
production operation
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɹəˈdʌkʃən/
Etymology
In summary
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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