production

noun productions

1. countable, uncountable The act of producing, making or creating something. The widget making machine is being used for production now.
2. countable, uncountable The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration. I tramped to a neighbouring market-town, and, late as the hour was, the production of a few shillings procured me supper and a night's lodging in a cheap coffee-house.
3. countable, uncountable The act of being produced. The widgets are coming out of production now.
4. countable, uncountable The total amount produced. They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.
5. countable, uncountable The presentation of a theatrical work. If you get the chance, try and catch the new production of "Hamlet."
6. countable, uncountable An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary. He made a simple meal into a huge production.
7. countable, uncountable 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. countable, uncountable The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
9. countable, uncountable An extension or protrusion.
10. countable, uncountable 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. uncountable The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development. production environment
12. countable, in plural, uncountable Written documents produced in support of the action or defence.
13. countable, uncountable 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.