Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Fabrication \Fab`ri*ca"tion\, n. [L. fabricatio; cf. F.
fabrication.]
1. The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing;
construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a
bridge, a church, or a government. --Burke.
2. That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is
doubtless a fabrication.
Syn: See {Fiction}.
Source : WordNet®
fabrication
n 1: a deliberately false or improbable account [syn: {fiction},
{fable}]
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}]