production

Etymology

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

noun

1. The act of producing, making or creating something.
   The widget making machine is being used for production now.
2. The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration.
3. The act of being produced.
   The widgets are coming out of production now.
4. The total amount produced.
   They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.
5. The presentation of a theatrical work.
   We went to a production of Hamlet.
6. An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary.
   He made a simple meal into a huge production.
7. 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.
8. The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
9. (zoology) An extension or protrusion.
10. (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.
11. (programming, uncountable) The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development.
    production environment
    live production database
12. (Scotland, law, in the plural) Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
13. (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.