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.

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, 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)

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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.

Noun

(en noun)

The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.

* {{quote-news

, year=2009 , date=April 3 , author=Olivia Feld , title=New gum could mean sticky end for mess , work= citation , page= , passage=After years of exporting the gum base to be used as an ingredient in the manufacture of regular chewing gum, the cooperative recently decided to start making its own gum using only chicle gum base and natural flavorings and sweeteners}}

Anything made, formed or produced; product.

* Jonathan Swift

The roads are crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures .

(figuratively) The process of such production; generation, creation.

* 1919 , :

Our lawgivers take special pride in the ever active manufacture of new bills and laws.