duc-, -duce, -duct, -ducent, -ductor, -duction, -ductive, -ducer, -ducement, -ducation +

A semiconductor that exhibits the piezoelectric effect (electric current produced by some crystals and ceramic materials when they are subjected to mechanical pressure); such as, quartz or barium titanate.

A device that uses the interaction between an electric charge and the deformation of a piezoelectric crystal to convert mechanical or acoustical signals into electrical ones, especially such a device used in a microphone.

1. The amount produced, yielded, or derived; the proceeds; the return, the yield.
2. The thing (or things collectively) produced, either as a natural growth or as a result of action or effort; product, fruit.
3. Agricultural and natural products collectively, as distinguished from manufactured goods.
4. To bring forward, bring forth or out; to bring into view, to present to view or to notice; to offer for inspection or consideration, to exhibit. Often used for bringing forward witnesses, as well as evidence, or vouchers, in a court of law.
5. To bring forth, bring into being or existence.
6. To bring (a thing) into existence from its raw materials or elements, or as the result of a process; to give rise to, to bring about, to effect, to cause, to make (an action, condition, etc.).
7. To manufacture or create economic goods and services.

1. Someone who, or that which produces; in various senses: to bring forth as a product; a mine that produces gold; a seed that finally produced fruit; a plant that produces a medicinal oil.
2. An organizer and administrator of the making of a movie, broadcast, or recording; or the staging of a play.

1. Capable of being produced, brought forward, or presented to the eye or mind; adducible; procurable, obtainable, available.
2. Fit to be produced or introduced; presentable.
3. That which can be produced or extended in length.
4. That which may be caused or brought about; capable of being brought into being, generated, or made.

1. In mathematics, the quantity obtained by multiplying two or more quantities together. Also, more widely, applied to other mathematical entities (as events, matrices, permutations, sets, tensors, vectors, etc.) obtained by certain defined processes of combination of two or more entities, the processes not necessarily being commutative and the entities combined not necessarily being of the same kind.
2. A thing produced by nature or a natural process; also in a collective sense; such as, produce, fruit.
3. That which is produced by any action, operation, or work; a production; the result. Now freq. that which is produced commercially for sale.
4. That which results from the operation of a cause; a consequence, effect.
5. In chemistry, a compound not previously existing in a body, but formed during its decomposition.

1. The action of producing, bringing forth, making, or causing; the fact or condition of being produced.
2. That which is produced; a thing that results from any action, process, or effort; a product.
3. The action of bringing forward or exhibiting. In Law, the exhibiting of a document in court. to satisfy production, to produce and submit a document called for by a court of law (and thereby to admit the title of the pursuer and competence of the court).
4. Designating a vehicle or appliance made in the ordinary course of production, as opposed to one made for testing or other special purposes.

1. Having the quality of producing or bringing forth; tending to produce; creative, generative.
2. That which causes or brings about, that results in; causative. Always with of.
3. That which produces readily or abundantly; fertile; prolific.

1. In economics, the rate of output per unit of input, used especially in measuring capital growth, and in assessing the effective use of labor, materials, and equipment.
2. The rate at which radiant energy is used by producers to form organic substances as food for consumers.

1. A small, often temporary defensive fortification.
2. A reinforcing earthwork or breastwork within a permanent rampart.
3. A protected place of refuge or defense.
4. An isolated work forming a complete enclosure of any form, used to defend a prominent point.
5. Etymology: from Fr. redoute, from It. ridotto "place of retreat," from M.L. reductus "place of refuge, retreat," from Latin reduct-, past participle stem of reducere, "to lead" or "to bring back".

1. To bring down, diminish to a smaller number, amount, extent, etc., or to a single thing: "The store reduced the coat from $100 to $65."
2. In chemistry, to decompose (a compound); to resolve into a simpler compound or into the constituent element; minimize, dilute, moderate: "Water reduces the potency of an alcoholic drink."
3. To decrease one's weight, to slim down to a lower weight: "It's easier to reduce if we simply watch what we eat."

That which can be reduced or capable of becoming smaller in size, number, extent, degree, or intensity, or something that can be made smaller in this way.

Capable of bringing down, as in extent, amount, or degree; that which is diminishable.

A reducing agent.

A substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the slackened silver.

1. The act or process of bringing something down in extent, amount, or degree; diminish.
2. The action or process of making a copy on a smaller scale.