production

English Online Dictionary. What means production‎? What does production mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin prōductiō, prōductiōnem (“a lengthening, prolonging”). See produce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈdʌkʃən/
• Hyphenation: pro‧duc‧tion

Noun

production (countable and uncountable, plural productions)

2. The act of producing, making or creating something. [from 15th c.]

4. The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration. [from 15th c.]
6. The act of being produced.

8. The total amount produced.
10. The presentation of a theatrical work.

12. An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.

14. That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model).

16. The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
18. (zoology) An extension or protrusion.
20. (computing) A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.)

22. (programming, uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.

24. (Scots law, in the plural) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
26. (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

Descendants

• → Japanese: プロダクション (purodakushon)

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin productiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.dyk.sjɔ̃/

Noun

production f (plural productions)

1. production

Derived terms

• chaîne de production

Related terms

• produire
• produit

Descendants

• → Dutch: productie

Further reading

• “production”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.