What does factory mean?

Definitions for factory
ˈfæk tə ri, -trifac·to·ry

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word factory.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactorynoun

    a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing

Wiktionary

  1. factorynoun

    A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

  2. factorynoun

    The position or state of being a factor.

  3. factorynoun

    A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

  4. factorynoun

    A device which produces or manufactures something.

  5. factorynoun

    In a computer program or library, a function or method which creates an object.

  6. Etymology: From factoria, from factor. Probably via a Romance language; compare Italian fattoria, Spanish factoría, Portuguese feitoria.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Factorynoun

    Etymology: from factor.

Wikipedia

  1. Factory

    A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories. Factories arose with the introduction of machinery during the Industrial Revolution, when the capital and space requirements became too great for cottage industry or workshops. Early factories that contained small amounts of machinery, such as one or two spinning mules, and fewer than a dozen workers have been called "glorified workshops".Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Large factories tend to be located with access to multiple modes of transportation, some having rail, highway and water loading and unloading facilities. In some countries like Australia, it is common to call a factory building a "Shed". Factories may either make discrete products or some type of continuously produced material, such as chemicals, pulp and paper, or refined oil products. Factories manufacturing chemicals are often called plants and may have most of their equipment – tanks, pressure vessels, chemical reactors, pumps and piping – outdoors and operated from control rooms. Oil refineries have most of their equipment outdoors. Discrete products may be final goods, or parts and sub-assemblies which are made into final products elsewhere. Factories may be supplied parts from elsewhere or make them from raw materials. Continuous production industries typically use heat or electricity to transform streams of raw materials into finished products. The term mill originally referred to the milling of grain, which usually used natural resources such as water or wind power until those were displaced by steam power in the 19th century. Because many processes like spinning and weaving, iron rolling, and paper manufacturing were originally powered by water, the term survives as in steel mill, paper mill, etc.

ChatGPT

  1. factory

    A factory is a large building or complex where workers manufacture goods or operate machines to produce goods on a large scale. It uses various materials and processes such as assembling, cutting, shaping, or chemical processing to transform raw materials into finished products.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Factorynoun

    a house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers

  2. Factorynoun

    the body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory

  3. Factorynoun

    a building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory

  4. Etymology: [Cf. F. factorerie.]

Wikidata

  1. Factory

    A factory or manufacturing plant is an industrial site, usually consisting of buildings and machinery, or more commonly a complex having several buildings, where workers manufacture goods or operate machines processing one product into another. Factories arose with the introduction of machinery during the Industrial Revolution when the capital and space requirements became too great for cottage industry or workshops. Early factories that contained small amounts of machinery, such as one or two spinning mules, and fewer than a dozen workers have been called "glorified workshops. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Large factories tend to be located with access to multiple modes of transportation, with some having rail, highway and water loading and unloading facilities. Factories may either make discrete products or some type of material continuously produced such as chemicals, pulp and paper or refined oil products. Factories manufacturing chemicals are often called plants and may have most of their equipment, consisting of tanks, pressure vessels, chemical reactors and pumps and piping located outdoors and are operated by personnel in control rooms. Oil refineries are similar to chemical plants in that most equipment is outdoors.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. factory

    A place where a considerable number of factors reside; as Lisbon, Leghorn, Calcutta, &c. Factory comprehends the business of a firm or company, as that of the India Company at Canton, or the Hudson's Bay Fur Company in North America.

Editors Contribution

  1. factory

    A type of building and property created and designed for a specific purpose.

    The factory was located near the village.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 2, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'factory' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2314

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'factory' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1900

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'factory' in Nouns Frequency: #747

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of factory in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of factory in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of factory in a Sentence

  1. Boxer Wachler:

    Even cars that came with factory tint, there was no guarantee that would protect against UV rays.

  2. Bill Gates:

    Even though well end up picking at most two of them, were going to fund factories for all seven, just so that we dont waste time in serially saying, OK, which vaccine works? and then building the factory.

  3. Brian Rabold:

    Their racing cars from the 1930s and 1950s are rare, and most are still owned by the factory, so any that come to market are highly sought after.

  4. Alistair Cooke:

    Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

  5. Prerit Rana:

    Factory owners train people for a day or two and get them to operate machines. It is all about meeting targets.

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