foundry.

1. A facility where molten metal is cast into shaped products.

2. A business that develops or supplies typefaces.

3. A business or fabrication facility producing semiconductor devices, especially for other companies.

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Words that belong together

• iron foundry
• foundry furnace

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The iron foundry stood near the river.

Workers crossed the foundry floor.

The museum preserved a foundry furnace.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular foundry; plural foundries. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.