factory

IPA: fˈæktɝi

(chiefly Scotland, now rare) The position or state of being a factor.
(now historical) A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
(UK, slang) A police station.
A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
A factory farm.
(programming) In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

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

Examples of "factory" in Sentences

The Freitag factory is located in a huge old (beautiful) warehouse.
$engine = $factory - > createReportEngine ($config); zput ( "/ tmp / factory", $engine);
But now that the coining factory is destroyed, I shall find it difficult to bring home the crime to anyone.
This notion of treating animals like machines leads to another of the ongoing semantics debates: over the term factory farm.
He said the factory twice received phone calls from the Israeli military telling them to evacuate the building in the days before the strike, but the factory was not used by Hamas or other Palestinian fighters.
This was the point of the No Free Lunch conjectures which Dembski put forward, that surrogates, like computers which create designs (a factory is an excellent example, or a genetic algorithm), still regress to something that is akin to conscious intelligence.