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MANUFACTURING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of making something (a product) from raw materials

Example:

manufacturing is vital to Great Britain

Synonyms:

fabrication; manufacture; manufacturing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("manufacturing" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manufacturing"):

formation; shaping (the act of fabricating something in a particular shape)

newspeak (deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used 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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb manufacture

Credits

 Context examples: 

For chemicals with which you are unfamiliar, consult the Merck Index to determine whether the chemical is used in manufacturing, agriculture, or other occupational setting.

(Occupational Carcinogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

Much of it comes from human activities such as mining and manufacturing.

(Lead Poisoning, Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry)

D. desulfuricans is an infrequent pathogen and may be important in manufacturing for the bioreduction of metals including Uranium and Palladium.

(Desulfovibrio desulfuricans, NCI Thesaurus)

Any process that harvests bone marrow for clinical or manufacturing purposes.

(Bone Marrow Collection, NCI Thesaurus)

Performing a review of the manufacturing steps and processes to ensure that they were met and followed and that the device records reflected these processes.

(Device Manufacturing Review Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

These incentives promote the development and manufacturing of such therapeutics, which otherwise might not be profitable because of the small potential market.

(Orphan Drug, NCI Thesaurus)

Hazardous waste is also a by-product of manufacturing.

(Hazardous Waste, Environmental Protection Agency)

L cremoris is a member of the commensal flora of bovine skin, is used in the manufacturing of cheese and buttermilk and is an opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients.

(Lactococcus lactis subsp cremoris, NCI Thesaurus)

A defined quantity of manufactured material or product produced in a single manufacturing process or series of process steps so that it reasonably is expected to be homogeneous.

(Lot, NCI Thesaurus)

R&D aimed at enabling scaled-up, reliable, cost effective manufacturing of nanoscale materials, structures, devices, and systems.

(Nanomanufacturing, NCI Thesaurus)