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STEEL FACTORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does steel factory mean?
• STEEL FACTORY (noun)
The noun STEEL FACTORY has 1 sense:
1. a factory where steel is made
Familiarity information: STEEL FACTORY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A factory where steel is made
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
steel factory; steel mill; steel plant; steelworks
Hypernyms ("steel factory" is a kind of...):
factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill (a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing)
Meronyms (parts of "steel factory"):
Bessemer converter (a refractory-lined furnace used to convert pig iron into steel by the Bessemer process)
blast furnace (a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air)
electric-arc furnace; Stassano furnace (an electric furnace in which an electric arc provides the source of heat for making steel)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steel factory"):
rolling mill (steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars)
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