factories

noun

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

A device or process that produces or manufactures something.

(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

(attributive) The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer.

(UK, slang) A police station.

A factory farm.

(chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor.

(historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

adjective

(colloquial, of a configuration, part, etc.) Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

Roots

faciofact- · Latin · make, do

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