factory
Pronunciation: /ˈfæk.tə.ɹi/
The English word “factory” has 10 meanings listed here.
noun
- A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
- A police station.
- A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
- A factory farm.
- In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.
- The position or state of being a factor.
- A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
- An invoice or inventory.
adjective
Etymology
Probably from factor + -y, although in noun sense 1 (“a place where manufacturing takes place”) apparently influenced strongly by association with Classical Latin fact-, the past participial stem of faciō (“to make”); compare manufactory and Latin factōrium (“an oil press”). In noun sense 8 (“a trading establishment”), originally after Portuguese feitoria. In noun sense 9 (“an invoice or…
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