"production line" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: production lines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} production line (plural production lines)
  1. (manufacturing) A set of sequential operations established in a factory whereby materials are put through a refining process or components are assembled to make a finished article. Wikipedia link: production line Categories (topical): Manufacturing Translations (set of operations): 生產線 (Chinese Mandarin), 生产线 (shēngchǎnxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), tuotantolinja (Finnish), gyártósor (Hungarian), 生産ライン (english: seisan rain) (Japanese), 製造ライン (seizō rain) (Japanese), produksjonslinje [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), produksjonsline [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), produksjonslinje [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), linha de produção [feminine] (Portuguese), пото́чная ли́ния (potóčnaja línija) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-production_line-en-noun-DI5DgI3M Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations Topics: business, manufacturing

Inflected forms

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