What is the meaning of Factory?

The position or state of being a factor.

A trading establishment, especially set up by merchants working in a foreign country.

A building or other place where manufacturing takes place.

A police station.

A device or process that produces or manufactures something.

A factory farm.

In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.

Having come from the factory in the state it is currently in; original, stock.

Source: wiktionary.org