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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.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Factories

    of Factory

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

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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. Zhu Zhiqun:

    It's a huge market that's going to become bigger and bigger, in some cities, less than 10 percent of factories and companies are operating normally.

  2. Wedbush Securities:

    We believe based on our investor conversations over the last few weeks that many on the Street would rather see Apple partner on the [ electric vehicle ] path, than start building its own vehicles [ and ] factories, a potential larger strategic partnership with an established [ electric vehicle ] player such as Tesla or Volkswagen would be a golden partnership.

  3. Natacha Alpert:

    The fashion and apparel world is still in cut-and-sew in the factories.

  4. 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.

  5. Donald Trump:

    Michigan has been stripped. You look at those empty factories all over the place, and nobody hits that message better than me.

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