Definition: fabrication

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

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]

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.