prod

To poke, to push, to touch.

To encourage, to prompt.

Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.

To prick with a goad.

A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.

A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.

A poke.

"It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.

A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.

The 125-pound prod (bow) drives bolt at 250 feet per second.

Clipping of production (“the live environment”).

We've hit ten million users in prod today.

A production; a created work.

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