manufacturing

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌmænjʊˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: man‧u‧fac‧tur‧ing

Noun

manufacturing (usually uncountable, plural manufacturings)

1. The transformation of raw materials into finished products, usually on a large scale.
2. The industry in which such products are made.

Derived terms

• additive manufacturing
• discrete manufacturing
• process manufacturing

Translations

create goods from materials

• Catalan: fabricació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 製造 / 制造 (zh) (zhìzào)

• Finnish: valmistus (fi)
• Galician: fabricación (gl) f, producción (gl) f
• Georgian: წარმოება (c̣armoeba)
• German: Herstellung (de) f, Produktion (de)
• Hebrew: יִצּוּר (he) m
• Kazakh: өндіріс (öndırıs)
• Macedonian: производство n (proizvodstvo)
• Maori: ahumahi, whakanaonga
• Portuguese: manufatura (pt) f, fabricação (pt) f
• Romanian: fabricare (ro) f
• Russian: произво́дство (ru) n (proizvódstvo), изготовле́ние (ru) n (izgotovlénije)
• Spanish: fabricación (es) f, producción (es) f
• Ukrainian: виробни́цтво n (vyrobnýctvo), ви́готовлення n (výhotovlennja)

industry

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 製造業 / 制造业 (zh) (zhìzàoyè)

• Finnish: teollisuus (fi)
• Portuguese: manufatura (pt) f

Adjective

manufacturing (not comparable)

1. Used in manufacturing.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

Translations

used in manufacturing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 製造的 / 制造的 (zhìzào de)

• Finnish: tuotannollinen (fi), tuotanto- (fi)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

manufacturing

1. present participle and gerund of manufacture