from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To manufacture (a building or section of a building, for example) in advance, especially in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled.
- transitive v. To make up, construct, or develop in an artificial, unoriginal, or stereotypic manner.
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- v. To manufacture something, especially a building, in standard components that can be fitted together on site
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- v. produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally
- v. 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
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I think the companies are trying too hard to prefabricate the kind of “sentient universe” idea that Grant Morrison has been known to go on about.
Prefabricated from the most traditional of materials, but that material -- because of the technology, the computing ability, the ability to prefabricate, make high-performance components out of timber -- very much at the cutting edge.
Apart from latrine construction, firms or individuals may be able to prefabricate components, such as slabs, blocks, pans and pipes.
Local craftspeople can easily prefabricate the bamboo structures.
The first step in putting up the walls, of course, is to prefabricate the cavity blocks as described in section 3.2.3.
· In the example described, the span of the dome was 5 m, a size that is easy to prefabricate and transport manually with 5 people.
Steve, to prefabricate the panel and have it put into position all at once.
Now, the joint-venture selected to build the 520 bridge, Kiewit-General-Manson, wants to lease 14 acres at the park to prefabricate the bridge's roadway deck and giant anchors.
"It's possible, with small areas of damage, to prefabricate a steel patch and put it into place," said Dawn Gorman, editor of the magazine International Tug & OSV.
"It's possible, with small areas of damage, to prefabricate a steel patch and put it into place," says Dawn Gorman, editor of the magazine, International Tug & OSV.