Definitions for factories
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1. factoriesnoun

   Plural form of factory.

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1. factories

   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.

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1. Factories

   of Factory

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'factories' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4314

Anagrams for factories »

1. factorise

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1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of factories in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of factories in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of factories in a Sentence

1. Bob Latham:

   We did offer to pay the factories in RMB. It's in our interest to make it as easy as possible for them to sell to us, so that we're the easiest route to market, but it all tended to get a little bit crazy. They have foreign bank accounts and that's where they handle all their foreign sales. So when we tried to pay in yuan they changed it into U.S. dollars, and then they transfer it from U.S. dollars back into RMB. So we couldn't see any logic or benefit.

2. Antler:

   Factories find work so meaningless they dream of being torn down even before they’re built.

3. Ro Khanna:

   This bill will create thousands of jobs across the country and has strong guardrails in place to ensure the funds go directly towards opening factories in the U.S, not stock buybacks or payments of dividends.

4. Getachew Betru:

   The majority of the users who move from the city, travel from here to there, people who are working in the factories, government offices and so on and so forth... most of them cannot afford expensive transportation. the light rail is not a commercial business, it is a social infrastructure. Economically it's not very expensive, the longest you go you pay nothing more than 30¢. It is reliable, you can time yourself to go anywhere you want to go. So the convenient effect will give an added value to the city of Addis.

5. Marc Engel:

   The purpose of the nano factory is not to match the output of a big factory with large-scale facilities, but a network of these nano factories would give Unilever greater innovation flexibility, the future could potentially see a new, dynamic model with local, distributed production lines all over the world, run from a central mothership.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Factories
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factories
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factories