manufacturing

Etymology

noun

1. The transformation of raw materials into finished products, usually on a large scale.
2. The industry in which such products are made.

adj

1. Used in manufacturing.
   More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel. 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion

verb

1. present participle and gerund of manufacture