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say it: pree-fa-bruh-KAY-shuhn
prefabrication is a noun meaning "the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site". It is pronounced /ˌpɹiˌfæbɹəˈkeɪʃən/ — pree-fa-bruh-KAY-shuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prefabrication come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.