product vs production

product

noun
  • Anything that is produced; a result. 

  • Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity. 

  • 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. 

  • A commodity offered for sale. 

  • 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. 

  • A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers. 

  • A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction. 

  • The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process. 

  • Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc. 

  • A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances. 

production

noun
  • The act of being produced. 

  • The presentation of a theatrical work. 

  • The act of bringing something forward, out, etc., for use or consideration. 

  • The act of producing, making or creating something. 

  • A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on Wikipedia.) 

  • The environment where finished code runs, as opposed to staging or development. 

  • 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. 

  • Written documents produced in support of the action or defence. 

  • An occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary. 

  • An extension or protrusion. 

  • The act of lengthening out or prolonging. 

  • That which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model). 

  • The total amount produced. 

How often have the words product and production occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )