autofactory
autofactory noun: a factory capable of running autonomously.
Noun
autofactory (plural autofactories)
- A factory capable of running autonomously.
- He had a moment's vision of the Inland Sea, blue through coastal haze. There were bobbles around the advanced estates, around the NM quarter of town. To the west were several large ones—around the autofactories? Everything was in stasis except the Korolev estate.1986, Vernor Vinge, “Marooned in Realtime”, in Across Realtime, Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., page 312
- "If we used Phobos as the entrapping vehicle," Cocci mused, "we could establish a base on Mars, a dome city. We could even set up an autofactory there to support the work."1986, Thomas Wren, The Doomsday Effect, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 103
- Synonyms:
- autofac
Synonyms of autofactory
Forms of autofactory
| plural | autofactories |
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Origin of autofactory
From auto- + factory.
Questions about autofactory
- What does autofactory mean?
- Autofactory means a factory capable of running autonomously.
- What part of speech is autofactory?
- Autofactory is a noun.
- What is the plural of autofactory?
- The plural of autofactory is autofactories.
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