productive

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Synonyms: productile, productize, proactive, production, protective, unproductive, reductive, predictive, projective, productid, producting

Antonyms: productile, productize, proactive, production, protective, unproductive, reductive, predictive, projective, productid, producting

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Adjective

Capable of [[producing]] something, especially in [[abundance]]; [[fertile]].
[[yield|Yielding]] good or useful [[result]]s; [[constructive]].
Of, or relating to the [[creation]] of [[goods]] or [[service]]s.
{{senseid|en|linguistics}} {{lb|en|linguistics|of an affix or word construction rule}} Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
{{lb|en|medicine}} Of a [[cough]], producing [[mucus]] or [[sputum]] from the [[respiratory]] [[tract]].
{{lb|en|medicine}} Of [[inflammation]], producing new [[tissue]].
{{lb|en|set theory}} A type of [[set]] of [[natural number]]s, related to [[mathematical logic]]; a set <math>S</math> is ''productive'' if there exists a total recursive function <math>f</math> such that <math>\forall x\in\mathbb{N}, ~~ W_x\subseteq S \Rightarrow f(x)\in A\setminus W_x</math>, where <math>W_x</math> is a recursive function whose Gödel number is <math>x</math>.

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