manufacturing

/mænjuˈfæktʃəɪŋ/

/mænjuˈfæktʃərɪŋ/

Use the noun manufacturing when you talk about the process of building or assembling something, especially in a factory.

Manufacturing means "making" or "building," but it's most often used to refer to an automated process of putting something together from parts. For example, your uncle might work in automobile manufacturing — in other words, at a car factory. The noun manufacturing comes from the verb manufacture, or "make," which has a Middle French root, from the Latin manu, "hand," and factura, "a working."

Definitions of manufacturing

1. noun

   the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
   synonyms: fabrication, manufacture

   types:

   formation, shaping

   the act of fabricating something in a particular shape

   newspeak

   deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language use to mislead and manipulate the public

   prefabrication

   the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site

   filing

   the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object)

   forging

   shaping metal by heating and hammering

   metalwork, metalworking

   the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner

   granulation

   the act of forming something into granules or grains

   grooving, rifling

   the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm

   turning

   the activity of shaping something on a lathe

   type of:

   creating from raw materials

   the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it