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What does foundry mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word foundry? Here's what it means.

Noun
  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.
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Government officials admitted that plans for eight-inch wafer foundry investments in China still pose many problems.
Cast billet can be hot forged, extruded, or machined, and castings can be produced by a variety of foundry techniques.
After much failure he eventually succeeded in substituting coal for coke, and joined forces with his father at his foundry at Bersham.
After his military training he apprenticed as a molder at an iron foundry where he worked for a few years.
Primarily an agrarian community the town was also home to a brass foundry, an iron forge, a wire-drawing mill, and a community of cabinetmakers.
I just stand there with a sheepish grin, my heart thumping like a foundry hammer.

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