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fabrication

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}]
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