foundry

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: foun'drē, IPA: /faʊndɹi/, SAMPA: /faUndri:/
• Rhymes: -aʊndɹi

Etymology

From French fonderie.

Noun

Wikipedia foundry (plural foundries)

1. 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, as iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.

Related terms

• type foundry

Translations

facility that melts metals

Chinese: Mandarin: 鑄造廠 (zh), 铸造厂 (zh) (zhùzàochǎng) Croatian: ljevaónica (hr) f. Dutch: gieterij (nl) Finnish: valimo (fi) French: fonderie (fr) f. German: Gießerei (de) f.

Italian: fonderia (it) f. Japanese: 鋳造所 (ja) (ちゅうぞうしょ, chūzōsho) Manx: mwyllin yiarn (gv) m. Russian: литейная (ru) (litéjnaja) f., литейный цех (ru) (litéjnyj cex) m., (plant) литейный завод (ru) (litéjnyj zavód) m. Spanish: fundidora (es) f.