production

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

• From Middle English produccioun, from Old French production, from Latin productio ("a lengthening, prolonging"). See produce.