noun. The act or process of making articles for use; the system of industry which produces manufactured articles.

Pertaining to or concerned in manufacture; industrial: as, a manufacturing community.

adjective. Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture

adjective. Pertaining to manufacture.

noun. The action of the verb to manufacture.

noun. The transformation of raw materials into finished products, usually on a large scale.

adjective. Used in manufacturing.

verb. Present participle of manufacture.

noun. the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

"The positive contributors to the index -- in order from the largest positive contributor to the smallest -- are the yield spread, the stock price index, production expectations, industrial new orders, building permits (residential) * and the ratio of the deflator of manufacturing value added to unit labor cost for manufacturing*."

creating from raw materials  

formation  newspeak  prefabrication  shaping  

fracturing  nonmanufacturing  

manufacture