foundry
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French fonderie. By surface analysis, found (“to melt (metals)”) + -ry (“place; process”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]foundry (countable and uncountable, plural foundries)
- A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
- 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
- So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry. […] So after a short spell in the brass foundry the wisest course was to follow with a similar period in the steel foundry, where much important work was done, including the manufacture of centres for wheels.
- The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
- A plant that produces chips out of semiconductors in the microelectronics industry.
Synonyms
[edit]- (semiconductor fabrication plant): fab
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]facility that melts metals
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Further reading
[edit]foundry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
foundry (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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