Fabrication  

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The Appian Way as it appeared in Piranesi's imagination (1756), from Le Antichità Romane, fanciful figment or scientific illustration?

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Fabrication may refer to:

The creation of a falsehood

• A type of lie
• Fiction
• Fables
• Fabrication (science), a form of scientific misconduct
• Fabricator (intelligence), a source agent or officer that produces fraudulent or false information
• Forgery

Processes in arts, crafts and manufacturing

• Art fabrication
• Construction
  • Prefabrication
• Manufacturing
• Stonemasonry

Etymology

From Latin fabricātus, perfect passive participle of fabricor, fabricō (“frame, build, forge”), from fabrica (“a fabric, building, etc.”); see fabric and forge.

See also

• Literary forgeries and mystifications
• Figment