Dictionary Definition
fabrication
Noun
2 writing in a fictional form [syn: fictionalization,
fictionalisation]
3 the act of making something (a product) from
raw materials; "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals";
"an improvement in the manufacture of explosives"; "manufacturing
is vital to Great Britain" [syn: manufacture]
4 the act of constructing something (as a piece
of machinery) [syn: assembly] [ant: dismantling]
5 the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
[syn: lying, prevarication]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act of fabricating, framing, or
constructing; construction; manufacture
- the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government
- That which is fabricated; a falsehood
- The story is doubtless a fabrication.
Translations
The act of fabricating, framing, or
constructing; construction; manufacture
- Finnish: valmistaminen
That which is fabricated; a falsehood
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Fabrication may refer to:
- Various processes in arts, crafts and manufacturing:
- The creation of a falsehood:
- Lies
- Fiction
- Fables
- Fabrication (science), a form of scientific misconduct
fabrication in French: fabrication
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, artifact, assemblage, assembly, authorship, beginning, build, building, buildup, canard, casting, cock-and-bull story,
coinage, combination, composition, compound, conception, concoction, conformation, constitution, construction, contrivance, contriving, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, creative effort,
cultivation,
deceit, design, devising, elaboration, embodiment, erection, extraction, extravaganza, fable, fabric, fairy tale, fake, falsehood, falsification, fashion, fashioning, fib, fiction, figment, forgery, forging, form, format, formation, forming, formulation, frame, framing, generation, getup, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, hatching, improvisation, incorporation, invention, junction, lie, machining, make, makeup, making, making do, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, mintage, mixture, mold, molding, myth, opus, organic structure, organism, organization, origination, pattern, patterning, physique, piecing together,
plan, prefabrication, preparation, prevarication, processing, producing, product, production, putting together,
raising, refining, romance, setup, sham, shape, shaping, smelting, story, structure, structuring, syneresis, synthesis, tale, tectonics, texture, tissue, untruth, warp and woof, weave, web, work, workmanship, yarn