foundry

English

Etymology

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From French fonderie.

Pronunciation

• enPR: foun'drē, IPA^(key): /faʊndɹi/
• Rhymes: -aʊndɹi

Noun

foundry (countable and uncountable, 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: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
2. The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
3. A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.

Synonyms

• (semiconductor fabrication plant): fab

Derived terms

• type foundry

Translations

facility that melts metals

• Armenian: ձուլարան (hy) (jularan)
• Bulgarian: леярна (bg) f (lejarna)
• Catalan: foneria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鑄造廠／铸造厂, 铸造厂 (zhùzàochǎng)

• Czech: slévárna f
• Danish: støberi n
• Dutch: gieterij (nl)
• Finnish: valimo (fi)
• French: fonderie (fr) f
• Galician: fundizón f, forna f
• German: Gießerei (de) f
• Greek: χυτήριο (el) n (chytírio)
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• Hungarian: vasöntöde (hu), öntöde (hu)
• Italian: fonderia (it) f
• Japanese: 鋳造所 (ちゅうぞうしょ, chūzōsho)
• Manx: mwyllin yiarn m
• Occitan: fondariá (oc) f
• Polish: odlewnia f
• Portuguese: fundição (pt) f
• Romanian: turnătorie (ro) f
• Russian: лите́йная (ru) f (litéjnaja), лите́йный цех m (litéjnyj cex), (plant) лите́йный заво́д m (litéjnyj zavód)
• Serbo-Croatian: ljevaónica (sh) f
• Spanish: fundición (es) f, (obsolete) fundería f, forja (es) f
• Swedish: gjuteri (sv) n
• Tagalog: pabubuan

Further reading

• foundry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• foundry (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia