The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc.

To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, glass, etc.

a company who produces at least one movement in house, as opposed to purchasing complete movements--however excellent--from an outside supplier

In the Swiss watch industry, this French term names companies where the watch manufacturer produces in-house all the major parts and components of a watch. Opposite from a "manufactory" which is to an "assembler" who merely puts together movements from parts acquired elsewhere, times and adjusts the movements, and fits on the hands and cases them up.

A watch factory. According to an unwritten watchmaking law, a watch company is only entitled to call itself a manufacture if it manufactures at least one calibre of its own construction.

Production, assembly, packaging, or other operation or process involved in the production of goods.

to make goods in large quantities, especially by machine ..... return

the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of computers to control production"

The process of making an artefact.

put together out of components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"

One of the classes of patentable subject matter under U.S. law.