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 (trading post), the European colonial trade institutions and officially licensed trading posts (eg those for Native Americans in the early 19th century United States)
- Factory object, an object "pattern" in object-oriented software programming
- "Factory", a song on the 1978 Bruce Springsteen album Darkness on the Edge of Town
- "Factory", a song by Wall of Voodoo on their album Call of the West
- 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 (TV series), a comedy television series
- "Factory No. X" was a standardization of factory names in the Soviet Union (where "X" replaced with a number, which represented the individual factory).
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