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fabrication|fæbrɪˈkeɪʃən|
[ad. L. fabricātiōn-em, n. of action f. fabricāre to fabricate.]
1. a. The action or process of fabricating (sense 1 of the vb.); construction, fashioning, manufacture; also, a particular branch of manufacture. Now rare.
1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. i. 290 Plato..falls into conjectures, attributing..the Fabrication of the Body to the Dii ex Deo or Angels. 1710Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. i. §62 The Fabrication of all those Parts and Organs be not absolutely necessary to the producing any effect. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 44 The fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust. 1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. iii. (ed. 2) 37 Our woollen, cotton, and silk fabrications have drawn out an immense amount of artizans. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man 10 Materials which have each in their turn served for the fabrication of implements.
concr.1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 356 Seuerus his forced vallie, with other strong..fabrications. 1670Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 2) App. 201 A Sphear is complycated only of Lath-like Circles to represent each Orb, and is not an intire Orb as a Globe is, so that you may see the several Fabrications that are made within it. 1893Whitby Gaz. 8 Dec. 2/7, I thought all our masts, funnel, and the whole fabrication, boats and all, would surely go.
b. The process of fabricating in the manufacture of finished products (see fabricate v. 1 e).
1926R. J. Anderson Metall. Aluminium xix. 852 The fabrication of various articles from aluminium sheet makes up an important branch of the aluminium industry. 1940J. D. Jevons Metall. Deep Drawing & Pressing p. xi, The fabrication of all kinds of metal articles by the severe plastic deformation of metal sheet is a craft as ancient as that of steel-making itself. 1951G. Sachs Sheet-Metal Fabricating i. 7 Frequently, a slight alteration in the geometry of a part may overcome difficulties in fabrication. 1963Simonds & Church Conc. Guide Plastics (ed. 2) vii. 188 After fabrication or molding, most plastics articles require some form of finishing. 1967E. Slade Metals in Mod. World viii. 189 Traditional metallurgical methods..are used increasingly for the fabrication of other materials, particularly the plastics.
2. In bad sense: The action of fabricating or ‘making up’; the invention (of a statement); the forging (of a document). Also concr. An invention; a false statement; a forgery.
1790J. Bruce Source of Nile II. 151 Fabrications of people that never have been in Abyssinia. 1819Sir W. O. Russell Crimes & Misdemeanours iv. xxvii. §1 The fabrication and false making of the whole of a written instrument..will amount to forgery. 1839Thirlwall Greece I. vii. 257 What is said to have happened might have been invented, and the occasion and motives for the fabrication may be conceived. 1846Wright Ess. Mid. Ages II. xiii. 83 The common account of his death is a mere fabrication. 1880T. A. Spalding Eliz. Demonol. 46 Stories..that had too inconvenient a basis of evidence to be dismissed as fabrications. |