productive
/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/ adjective B1- Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
- Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
- Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
- Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
- Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
- Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
- A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic; a set S is productive if there exists a total recursive function f such that ∀x∈ℕ,~~W_x⊆S⇒f(x)∈A⧵W_x, where W_x is a recursive function whose Gödel number is x. · a productive set
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