prefab
See also: pre-fab
English
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Adjective
editprefab (not comparable)
Noun
editprefab (plural prefabs)
- A prefabricated building.
- 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41:
- Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.
- A prefabricated section of a building.
- (British) A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use.
- (programming) A reusable object in a video game world.
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editprefabricated building
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Verb
editprefab (third-person singular simple present prefabs, present participle prefabbing, simple past and past participle prefabbed)
- To prefabricate.