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▪ I. fab, n.
Brit. |fæb|, U.S. |fæb|
[Shortened ‹fabrication n.]
An industrial plant for the manufacture of electronics components, esp. microchips. Freq. attrib.
1984Chip Availability in net.micro (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Apr. Probably the biggest problem is that many people seem to think semiconductor capacity can be turned on with a flip of a switch when actually it takes about 2 years to bring a new fab online. 1989Electronics Mag. 28 Apr. 2 A California startup..announced it would be manufacturing 1-Mbit DRAMs in volume later this year at a fab leased from AT&T. 1992Personal Computer World Feb. 237/2 As for the decision to locate in Ireland, it actually took us longer to make a decision to build a fab area outside the United States than to settle on Ireland as the location for it. 2005C. Stross Accelerando ii. 41 Around the world, fab lines casually churn out thirty million microprocessors a day.
▪ II. fab
colloq. abbrev. of fabulous a. 5 b. Also as n.
1961in Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1082/1. 1963 Times 26 Jan. 10/6 She stretched her stockinged toes towards the blazing logs. ‘Daddy, this fire's simply fab.’ 1963New Statesman 18 Oct. 536/1 Those girls in leather gear—the height of fab. 1963Meet the Beatles 22 Most of the Merseyside groups produce sounds which are pretty fab. 1971It 2–16 June 11/4 Seale called the fab philosopher ‘a moral coward’.
▪ III. fab
obs. and Sc. var. of fob. |