Foundry (disambiguation)
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A foundry
is a metal works where metal casting operations are performed.
Foundry may also refer to:
Foundry
A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal in a mold, and removing the mold material or casting after the metal has solidified as it cools. The most common metals processed are aluminum and cast iron...
is a metal works where metal casting operations are performed.
Foundry may also refer to:
- The Foundry (United States region), the industrial core of North America as identified by Joel Garreau
- Type foundryType foundryA type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers...
, a company that produces and/or distributes typefaces - Foundry NetworksFoundry NetworksFoundry Networks, Inc. was a networking hardware vendor selling high-end Ethernet switches and routers. The company was founded in 1996 by Bobby R. Johnson, Jr. and was headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA...
, a U.S. ethernet switch and router manufacturer - A company that operates a semiconductor fabrication plant for fabricating the designs of other companies
- The Foundry, a London-based plug-in development house known for creating the NukeNuke (software)Nuke is a node-based compositor produced by The Foundry, and used for film and television post-production. Nuke is cross-platform, and is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux...
video compositorCompositingCompositing is the combining of visual elements from separate sources into single images, often to create the illusion that all those elements are parts of the same scene. Live-action shooting for compositing is variously called "chroma key", "blue screen", "green screen" and other names. Today,... - the FoundryFoundry (bar)The Foundry was a bar and venue on Great Eastern Street at the junction with Old Street in Shoreditch, London. It was owned and run by Jonathan and Tracey Moberly. Bill Drummond, co-founder of the KLF, helped set up the Foundry. It had a basement which hosted art, music and poetry events...
, a bar in Shoreditch - Foundry, the first career stage in the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, often abbreviated to THPS3, is a skateboarding video game in the Tony Hawk's series. It was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision in 2001 for the Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation. In 2002, it was published for the...
- Foundry, a fictional planet within the Star WarsStar WarsStar Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
galaxy - Foundry, a map in the 2007 videogame available for the Xbox 360Xbox 360The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
, Halo 3Halo 3Halo 3 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie for the Xbox 360 console. The third installment in the Halo franchise, the game concludes the story arc begun in Halo: Combat Evolved and continued in Halo 2... - Foundry, an American rock band famous for their song PendulumPendulumA pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. When a pendulum is displaced from its resting equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the equilibrium position...
- Foundry, a North Carolina based hard rock band that has appeared with such acts as Five Finger Death Punch, the Deftones, Buckcherry, Trapt, Shiny Toy Guns, 10 Years, Drowning Pool, Nonpoint, In This Moment, Crossfade, FLAW, Rev Theory, Dope, Mushroomhead, Sevendust, Static X, Saving Abel, Silent Civilian, and Egypt Central
- The Foundry, a defunct shopping development built in the 2000s in Washington, PennsylvaniaWashington, PennsylvaniaWashington is a city in and the county seat of Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States, within the Pittsburgh Metro Area in the southwestern part of the state...