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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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
[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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