A device or process that produces or manufactures something.
A factory farm.
In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.
A police station.
Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.
The socio-economic system based upon the industrial production of manufactured goods, rather than on agriculture.