fabrication

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

   the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals

2. 2
   noun

   The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture

   the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government

3. 3
   noun

   That which is fabricated; a falsehood.

   The story is doubtless a fabrication.

4. 4
   noun

   The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.

   For many years meat fabrication was done by hand, with the butchers improving their craft with the advent of higher quality metals, knives, and tools. With the coming of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s, meat processing changed.

5. 5
   noun

   the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

6. 6
   noun

   the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

7. 7
   noun

   writing in a fictional form

8. 8
   noun

   a deliberately false or improbable account

Etymology

From Middle French fabrication, from Latin fabricatio. Equivalent to fabricate + -ion.