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production

Pronunciation: /pɹəˈdʌkʃən/

The English word “production” has 13 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The act of producing, making or creating something.
  2. The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
  3. The act of being produced.
  4. The total amount produced.
  5. The presentation of a theatrical work.
  6. An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
  7. That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).
  8. The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
  9. An extension or protrusion.
  10. A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)
  11. The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
  12. Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
  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.

Etymology

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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