factory
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
Noun 4 meanings
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
“History has shown that, even without cheap labor, factories run perfectly well.”
A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
A factory farm.
“chicken factory; pig factory”
In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
Adjective 1 meaning
Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
“See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory.”
Etymology
Probably from factor + -y, although in noun sense 1 (“a place where manufacturing takes place”) apparently influenced strongly by association with Classical Latin fact-, the past participial stem of faciō (“to make”); compare manufactory and Latin factōrium (“an oil press”).
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FACTORY at a glance
FACTORY has 7 letters and scores 15 points in Scrabble (F 4 + A 1 + C 3 + T 1 + O 1 + R 1 + Y 4) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,676 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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