Factory (disambiguation)
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A factory is a large industrial building where goods are manufactured. The word can be traced back to the Latin "factorium", which is literally "a place of making (producing)".
Factory may also refer to:
- Factory (fur trade), officially licensed trading posts for Native Americans in the early 19th century United States
- Factory object, an object "pattern" in object-oriented software programming
- Factory method pattern, an object-oriented design pattern in software programming
- Factory Records, a British record label that operated from 1978 to 1992
- The Factory, Andy Warhol's New York City studio from 1963 to 1968
- Factory (Code Lyoko), a setting in the French animated series Code Lyoko
- Factory system, the method of manufacturing using factories
- Factory, a building constructed by the Terran race in StarCraft