factory

Plural: factories

Noun

• A building where goods are manufactured or assembled.
• a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
• 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.

Adj

• Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

Examples

• chicken factory; pig factory
• factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset
• His brain felt like a word factory, constantly churning out possibilities on the Scrabble board.
• History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.
• See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.

Synonyms

manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill

Related Words

fact, faction, factor, factorial, fashion