Production may refer to:
Economics and business
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Production (economics)
Production is the process of combining various inputs, both material (such as metal, wood, glass, or plastics) and immaterial (such as plans, or knowledge) in order to create output. Ideally this output will be a good or service which has value a ...
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manufacturing
Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to ...
goods
* Production, in the
outline of industrial organization
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to industrial organization:
Industrial organization – describes the behavior of firms in the marketplace with regard to production, pricing, employment and other decisi ...
, the act of making products (goods and services)
* Production as a statistic,
gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and sold (not resold) in a specific time period by countries. Due to its complex and subjective nature this measure is of ...
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Production line
A production line is a set of sequential operations established in a factory where components are assembled to make a finished article or where materials are put through a refining process to produce an end-product that is suitable for onward c ...
Arts, entertainment, and media
Motion pictures
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film distributor
A film distributor is responsible for the marketing of a film. The distribution company may be the same with, or different from, the production company. Distribution deals are an important part of financing a film.
The distributor may set the ...
of a company
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phase of filmmaking
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video production
Video production is the process of producing video content for video. It is the equivalent of filmmaking, but with video recorded either as analog signals on videotape, digitally in video tape or as computer files stored on optical discs, hard dri ...
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
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''Production'' (album), by Mirwais, 2000
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category of illusory magic trick
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phase of video games development
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Record producer
A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...
's role
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theatrical
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actor, actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The p ...
performance
Science and technology
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deployment environment
In software deployment, an environment or tier is a computer system or set of systems in which a computer program or software component is deployed and executed. In simple cases, such as developing and immediately executing a program on the sam ...
where changes go "live" and users interact with it
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Production (computer science)
A production or production rule in computer science is a ''rewrite rule'' specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. A finite set of productions P is the main component in the specificatio ...
, formal-grammar concept
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Primary production
In ecology, primary production is the synthesis of organic compounds from atmospheric or aqueous carbon dioxide. It principally occurs through the process of photosynthesis, which uses light as its source of energy, but it also occurs through ...
, the production of new biomass by autotrophs in ecosystems
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Productivity (ecology)
In ecology, the term productivity refers to the rate of generation of biomass in an ecosystem, usually expressed in units of mass per volume (unit surface) per unit of time, such as grams per square metre per day (g m−2 d−1). The unit of mass ...
, the wider concept of biomass production in ecosystems
See also
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Consumption (economics)
Consumption is the act of using resources to satisfy current needs and wants. It is seen in contrast to investing, which is spending for acquisition of ''future'' income. Consumption is a major concept in economics and is also studied in many o ...
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Means of production
The means of production is a term which describes land, labor and capital that can be used to produce products (such as goods or services); however, the term can also refer to anything that is used to produce products. It can also be used as a ...
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Producer (disambiguation)
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Product (disambiguation)
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Production rule (disambiguation)
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Production system (disambiguation) Production system may refer to:
* Computer Animation Production System (CAPS), developed by the Walt Disney Company and Pixar in the 1980s
* Production system (computer science), a program used to provide some form of artificial intelligence
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