foundry

French fonderie

• enPR: foun'drē, IPA^(key): /faʊndɹi/
• Rhymes: -aʊndɹi

foundry (countable and uncountable, plural foundries)

1. A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
2. The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
3. A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.

• (semiconductor fabrication plant): fab

• type foundry