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gigafactories

gigafactories is the plural of gigafactory.

Meaning of gigafactory

Noun

gigafactory (plural gigafactories)

  1. (slang) A very large manufacturing facility.
    • The new AI “gigafactories” would be much larger, targeting what the commission called “moonshots”: significant innovations in healthcare, biotech, industry, robotics and scientific discovery. […] While the best-performing AI factories have supercomputers equipped with up to 25,000 advanced AI...2025 April 9, Jennifer Rankin, “EU to build AI gigafactories in €20bn push to catch up with US and China”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    1. (slang) A factory producing electric batteries at a large scale.
      • “The main constraint on our production is really the cells,” Musk explained. “We are not quite ready to make a big announcement on the cell and battery giga factory, but we are exploring a lot of these options right now.”2013, Dana Hull, “Tesla Motors may make its own batteries”, in San Jose Mercury News

Questions about gigafactories

What is gigafactories the plural of?
Gigafactories is the plural of gigafactory.

Words near gigafactories in the dictionary

  1. gigadeaths
  2. gigaelectron volt
  3. gigaelectron volts
  4. gigaelectronvolt
  5. gigaelectronvolts
  6. gigafactories
  7. gigafactory
  8. gigafire
  9. gigafires
  10. gigaflop
  11. gigaflops

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