Noun

(wikipedia fabric)

(archaic) structure, building

* Milton

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge / Rose like an exhalation.

(archaic) The act of constructing; construction; fabrication.

* Milman

Tithe was received by the bishop for the fabric of the churches for the poor.

(archaic) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make.

cloth of a beautiful fabric

The framework underlying a structure

the fabric of our lives

the fabric of the universe

A material made of fibers, a textile or cloth.

cotton fabric

(petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock

(computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile 'fabric' when viewed collectively from a distance

The internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers

Noun

(factories)

(obsolete) 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.

* , chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories , it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=7 citation , passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}

A device which produces or manufactures something.

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

* 2010 , Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew, Inside the Microsoft Build Engine

The task factory is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.