factory
/ˈfæktəɹi/ · noun
Meaning
- A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
- The position or state of being a factor.
- A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
- A device which produces or manufactures something.
- A factory farm.
- In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- (of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
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