1. The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)
   "The factory's assembly line ensured efficient fabrication of the new car model";
   - assembly
    
2. The act of making something (a product) from raw materials
   "the synthesis and fabrication of single crystals";
   - manufacture, manufacturing
    
3. Intentionally saying something false or misleading
   "His constant fabrication eventually caught up with him when his stories contradicted each other";
   - lying, prevarication
    
4. A deliberately false or improbable account
   "His story about being abducted by aliens was pure fabrication";
   - fiction, fable

Derived forms: fabrications

Type of: building, construction, creating from raw materials, falsehood, falsification, falsity, misrepresentation, untruth

Antonym: dismantling

Encyclopedia: Fabrication