FABRICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fabrication mean? 

• FABRICATION (noun)
  The noun FABRICATION has 5 senses:

1. a deliberately false or improbable account

2. writing in a fictional form

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

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

5. the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

  Familiarity information: FABRICATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FABRICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deliberately false or improbable account

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

fable; fabrication; fiction

Hypernyms ("fabrication" is a kind of...):

falsehood; falsity; untruth (a false statement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fabrication"):

canard (a deliberately misleading fabrication)

Derivation:

fabricate (concoct something artificial or untrue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Writing in a fictional form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fabrication; fictionalisation; fictionalization

Hypernyms ("fabrication" is a kind of...):

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Derivation:

fabricate (concoct something artificial or untrue)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fabrication; manufacture; manufacturing

Context example:

manufacturing is vital to Great Britain

Hypernyms ("fabrication" is a kind of...):

creating from raw materials (the act of creating something that is different from the materials that went into it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fabrication"):

formation; shaping (the act of fabricating something in a particular shape)

newspeak (deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public)

prefabrication (the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site)

Derivation:

fabricate (put together out of artificial or natural components or parts)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

assembly; fabrication

Hypernyms ("fabrication" is a kind of...):

building; construction (the act of constructing something)

Derivation:

fabricate (put together out of artificial or natural components or parts)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The deliberate act of deviating from the truth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fabrication; lying; prevarication

Hypernyms ("fabrication" is a kind of...):

falsification; misrepresentation (a willful perversion of facts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fabrication"):

fibbing; paltering (a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear)

Derivation:

fabricate (put together out of artificial or natural components or parts)

 Context examples 

Fabrication of the physical structure of an in vitro diagnostic device.

(Manufacture or Assemble Software Platform or Architecture for in Vitro Diagnostics Device, NCI Thesaurus)

Uses a combination of micromachining and integrated circuit fabrication technology.

(Microfabrication, NCI Thesaurus)

In a manner similar to that for microelectronics, microfluidic technologies enable the fabrication of highly integrated devices for performing several different functions on the same substrate chip.

(Microfluidics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Commonly used in integrated circuit fabrication.

(Microdeposition, NCI Thesaurus)

Graphene could pave the way towards the fabrication of new devices for ultra-broad bandwidth applications.

(Graphene paves the way to faster high-speed communications, University of Cambridge)

A process that involves designing, fabrication, assembly and/or processing of a device or device component.

(Device or Device Component Manufacturing, NCI Thesaurus)

The miniaturizing technology, called implosion fabrication, could be applied to anything from developing smaller microscope and cell phone lenses to creating tiny robots that improve everyday life.

(Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I will stake it all on the fact that your story is an absolute fabrication.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of the biggest fabrication challenges was inserting small amounts of other elements into the silicon, or doping it, so that it would reflect infrared light like a metal.

(Harvesting Electrical Power from Waste Heat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

To reduce costs and accelerate manufacturing, fabrication of the stretchable sensor uses aerosol jet 3D printing.

(Stretchable wireless sensor could monitor healing of cerebral aneurysms, National Science Foundation)