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PREFABRICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("prefabrication" is a kind of...):
fabrication; manufacture; manufacturing (the act of making something (a product) from raw materials)
Derivation:
prefabricate (to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings)