fabrication

English

From Middle French fabrication, from Latin fabricatio.

fabrication (countable and uncountable, plural fabrications)

(uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture
the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government
(countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood
The story is doubtless a fabrication.
(cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.
- 2011, Thomas Schneller, Kitchen Pro Series: Guide to Purchasing, page 92:
  For many years meat fabrication was done by hand, with the butchers improving their craft with the advent of higher quality metals, knives, and tools. With the coming of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s, meat processing changed.

act

Bulgarian: производство (bg) n (proizvodstvo), фабрикуване (bg) n (fabrikuvane)
Dutch: fabricage (nl) f
Finnish: valmistaminen (fi), rakentaminen (fi), väärentäminen (fi)
French: fabrication (fr) f
Georgian: ფაბრიკაცია (ka) (pabriḳacia)
Romanian: fabricare (ro) f
Russian: произво́дство (ru) n (proizvódstvo), изготовле́ние (ru) n (izgotovlénije)
Spanish: fabricación (es) f, manufactura (es) f
Tagalog: pag-imbento

that which is fabricated; a falsehood

Azerbaijani: qondarma (az), geydirmə
Bulgarian: фалшификат (bg) m (falšifikat)
Dutch: verzinsel (nl) n
Finnish: sepite (fi), tekaistu juttu, valhe (fi), väärennös (fi)
French: fabulation (fr) f
Lushootseed: səxʷʔiw̓adəb
Russian: вы́думка (ru) f (výdumka), фальсифика́ция (ru) f (falʹsifikácija), подде́лка (ru) f (poddélka), подло́г (ru) m (podlóg)
Spanish: falsedad (es) f, mentira (es) f, invención (es) f
Tagalog: imbento, gawa (tl), gawa-gawa
Urdu: جعلسازی‎ (ja'alsāzī), جعل سازی‎ (ja'al sāzī)

fabrication f (plural fabrications)