product introduction | the introduction (usually by an advertising campaign) of a new product or product line |
product development | improving an existing product or developing new kinds of products |
product research | marketing research that yields information about desired characteristics of the product or service |
balance beam beam | a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts |
beam | long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction |
beam | the broad side of a ship, they sighted land on the port beam |
beam balance | a balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm |
box beam box girder | a beam built up from boards, has a hollow rectangular cross section |
by-product byproduct spin-off | a product made during the manufacture of something else |
end product output | final product, the things produced |
I-beam | girder having a cross section resembling the letter `I' |
line product line line of products line of merchandise business line line of business | a particular kind of product or merchandise, a nice line of shoes |
merchandise ware product | commodities offered for sale, good business depends on having good merchandise, that store offers a variety of products |
product production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process, they improve their product every year, they export most of their agricultural production |
software package software product | merchandise consisting of a computer program that is offered for sale |
steelyard lever scale beam scale | a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length |
tie tie beam | a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating, he nailed the rafters together with a tie beam |
beam | (nautical) breadth amidships |
parameter parametric quantity | a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves |
parameter | a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data |
product mathematical product | a quantity obtained by multiplication, the product of and is |
vector product cross product | a vector that is the product of two other vectors |
scalar product inner product dot product | a real number (a scalar) that is the product of two vectors |
product-moment correlation coefficient Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient | the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between variables that are linearly related |
bar code Universal Product Code | code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser, printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information |
argument parameter | (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program |
radio beam beam | a signal transmitted along a narrow path, guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather |
parameter | any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance |
foodstuff food product | a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food |
dairy product | milk and butter and cheese |
intersection product Cartesian product | the set of elements common to two or more sets, the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things |
beam-ends | (nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel, on her beam-ends means heeled over on the side so that the deck is almost vertical |
by-product byproduct | a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence |
product | a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances, skill is the product of hours of practice, his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue |
beam beam of light light beam ray ray of light shaft shaft of light irradiation | a column of light (as from a beacon) |
beam ray electron beam | a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation |
high beam | the beam of a car's headlights that provides distant illumination |
laser beam | a beam of light generated by a laser |
low beam | the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance |
particle beam | a collimated flow of particles (atoms or electrons or molecules) |
ion beam ionic beam | a beam of ions moving in the same direction at the same speed |
gross national product GNP | former measure of the United States economy, the total market value of goods and services produced by all citizens and capital during a given period (usually yr) |
real gross national product real GNP | a version of the GNP that has been adjusted for the effects of inflation |
gross domestic product GDP | the measure of an economy adopted by the United States in , the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and capital within a nation's borders during a given period (usually year) |
Hubble's constant Hubble constant Hubble's parameter Hubble parameter | (cosmology) the ratio of the speed of recession of a galaxy (due to the expansion of the universe) to its distance from the observer, the Hubble constant is not actually a constant, but is regarded as measuring the expansion rate today |
animal product | a product made from animal material |
body waste excretion excreta excrement excretory product | waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body |
waste waste material waste matter waste product | any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted, they collect the waste once a week, much of the waste material is carried off in the sewers |
plant product | a product made from plant material |
product | a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction, a product of lime and nitric acid |