Factory vs Envelope - What's the difference?
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(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.
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, chapter=7 A device which produces or manufactures something.
(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
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A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
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, title= Something that envelops; a wrapping.
A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
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(geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
(electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
(music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
(computing) The information used for routing an email that is transmitted with the email but not part of its contents.
(biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane.
(engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
(astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
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As nouns the difference between factory and envelope
is that factory is (obsolete) a trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country while envelope is a paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.As a verb envelope is
(nonstandard).factory
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Noun
(factories)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.}}
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.}}
- The task factory is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically.
Synonyms
* manufactoryDerived terms
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Etymology 1
From the (etyl) enveloppe, from envelopper.Noun
(en noun)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope , or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
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