fabrication Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a deliberately false or improbable account
    fable; fiction.
  2. noun writing in a fictional form
    fictionalization; fictionalisation.
  3. noun the act of making something (a product) from raw materials
    manufacture; manufacturing.
    • the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals
    • an improvement in the manufacture of explosives
    • manufacturing is vital to Great Britain
  4. noun the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
    assembly.
  5. noun the deliberate act of deviating from the truth
    prevarication; lying.

WordNet

Fab`ri*ca"tion noun
Etymology
L. fabricatio; cf. F. fabrication.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913