What does "factory" mean?

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

What is a synonym for "factory"?

Common synonyms include: manufactory, manufactory, works, armory, arsenal, assembly line.

//ˈfæk.tə.ɹi// adj, noun, slang

adj, noun, slang ·Common ·Middle school level

Noun

1
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
"[…] 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."
2
a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing wordnet
3
A police station. UK, slang
"The guys all knew each other and we were having a jolly old chinwag as we marched them out of the house in front of their stunned neighbours and into a van we had called to take them all to the Factory (police station)."
4
A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
"Radio became a star factory for journalists."
5
A factory farm.
"chicken factory; pig factory"

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6
In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
"The task factory […] is the object that is responsible for creating instances of those tasks dynamically."
7
The original state of an electronic device, as it was when it came from the manufacturer. attributive
"factory settings; factory defaults; a factory reset"
8
The position or state of being a factor. Scotland, archaic
9
A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country. historical
"We had here his curate, Mr. Furley, who had been nine years chaplain to the English factory at St. Petersburg […] ."

Adjective

1
Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock. colloquial, not-comparable, usually
"See how there's another layer of metal there? That's not factory."