Definition of Prefabricate

1. Verb. 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.

Exact synonyms: Preassemble
Category relationships: Building, Construction
Generic synonyms: Create, Make, Produce
Derivative terms: Prefabrication

2. Verb. Produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally.
Generic synonyms: Create, Make, Produce

Definition of Prefabricate

1. Verb. To manufacture something, especially a building, in standard components that can be fitted together on site ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prefabricate

1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prefabricate

preexists
preexpectation
preexpectations
preexperiment
preexponent
preexponential
preexponents
preexpose
preexposed
preexposes
preexposing
preexposure
prefab
prefabbed
prefabbing
prefabricate (current term)
prefabricated
prefabricates
prefabricating
prefabrication
prefabrications
prefabs
preface
prefaced
prefaceless
prefacer
prefacers
prefaces
prefacing
prefactor

Literary usage of Prefabricate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"... the foreign committees were requested to prefabricate the decorations for their entries in their own countries as much as possible, and to install them ..."

2. Time-based Architecture by Bernard Leupen, René Heijne, Jasper van Zwol (2005)
"... of relationships from the first conceptual hypotheses to the driving of the machines that prefabricate the components that will be assembled on site. ..."

3. Arie Hagoort, architectby Arjen Oosterman, Roos Aldershoff by Arjen Oosterman, Roos Aldershoff (1991)
"In addition we can discern a distinct preference for factory-made materials and components, Put bluntly, better prefabricate it than make it on site. ..."

4. Reduction of Capital Costs of Nuclear Power Plants by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2000)
"prefabricate reactor liner. • prefabricate primary and secondary shield walls. • Utilisation of heavy lift cranes. • Reduce the number of embedments. ..."

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