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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(science fiction) A factory capable of running autonomously..
He had a moment's vision of the Inland Sea, blue through coastal haze. There were bobbles around the advanced estates, around the NM quarter of town. To the west were several large ones—around the autofactories? Everything was in stasis except the Korolev estate.
"If we used Phobos as the entrapping vehicle," Cocci mused, "we could establish a base on Mars, a dome city. We could even set up an autofactory there to support the work."
Another tunnel took her through to a chamber from which many such tunnels debarked and thence to the small tubular autofactory that had made her.
Use auto factory when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Auto factory means (science fiction) A factory capable of running autonomously..
Common synonyms include autofac.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He had a moment's vision of the Inland Sea, blue through coastal haze. There were bobbles around the advanced estates, around the NM quarter of town. To the west were several large ones—around the autofactories? Everything was in stasis except the Korolev estate.
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