Product vs Server - What's the difference?
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A commodity offered for sale.
Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
Anything that is produced; a result.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
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# The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
# A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
# (label) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
# (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
# (label) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.
# Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
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Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
One who serves; a waitress or waiter.
A tray for dishes; a salver.
(computing) A program which provides services to other programs or users, either in the same computer or over a computer network.
(senseid)(computing) A computer dedicated to running such programs.
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As nouns the difference between product and server
is that product is a commodity offered for sale while server is server (a computer or software that provides services to other programs or users).product
English
Noun
- the product of those ill-mated marriages.
- These institutions are the products of enthusiasm.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "product": excellent, good, great, inferior, crappy, broken, defective, cheap, expensive, reliable, safe, dangerous, useful, valuable, useless, domestic, national, agricultural, industrial, financial.Synonyms
* (items for sale) merchandise, wares, goods * (amount created by a process) production, output, creationDerived terms
* by-product * categorical product * end product * finished product * gross domestic product, gross national product * product placement * product recallSee also
* addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend ----server
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Noun
(en noun)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}