ALL meanings of direct product
di·rect prod·uct
D d - noun direct product a group, or other such system, every element of which can be written uniquely as the product of elements of disjoint groups, with each group contributing one element to the product. 1
- noun direct product (set theory) The set of functions from the indexing set of an indexed family of sets to the union of the family, whose values at any given index lie in the set indexed thereby. 0
- noun direct product (mathematics) The generalization of direct product (1) to arbitrary categories. 0