MANUFACTURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manufactured mean? 

• MANUFACTURED (adjective)
  The adjective MANUFACTURED has 1 sense:

1. produced in a large-scale industrial operation

  Familiarity information: MANUFACTURED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANUFACTURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Produced in a large-scale industrial operation

Similar:

factory-made (produced in quantity at a factory)

 Context examples 

The crown is manufactured in 26mm worldwide and can be applied to either a threaded finish or a solid ring pry-off finish.

(Crown Metal Container Closure, Food and Drug Administration)

Raw and processed or manufactured milk and milk-derived products.

(Dairy Product, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A manufactured object that is used to perform diagnostic, therapeutic or research activities.

(Diagnostic, Therapeutic, or Research Equipment, NCI Thesaurus)

Chemistry concerned with the composition, structure, and properties of natural and manufactured fibrous materials.

(Fiber Chemistry, NCI Thesaurus)

An I 131 radioiodinated synthetic analogue of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, manufactured with a proprietary process, with radioisotopic and potential antineoplastic activities.

(Cold Contaminant-free Iobenguane I-131, NCI Thesaurus)

Nobody manufactured their opinions for them; they were all rebels of one variety or another, and their lips were strangers to platitudes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Children living with HIV in Brazil are to benefit from the introduction of a new medicine manufactured with groundbreaking technology.

(New HIV medicine under development for children in Brazil, Agência Brasil/EBC)

The FDA evaluates the safety of a drug by looking at: • Side effects • How it's manufactured • Results of animal testing and clinical trials

(Drug Safety, NIH)

A unique numeric code assigned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prescription drugs and insulin products manufactured, prepared, processed, or propagated by registered establishments for commercial distribution.

(FDA National Drug Code, NCI Thesaurus)

A defined quantity of manufactured material or product produced in a single manufacturing process or series of process steps so that it reasonably is expected to be homogeneous.

(Lot, NCI Thesaurus)