Definition of "prefabricated" [prefabricated]

• Manufactured in advance, usually to a standard format, and then assembled on site (adjective)
• Invented in advance (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of prefabricate. (verb)

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• "We were in prefabricated wooden barracks, and the rooms were bolted together."
• "Rather than comment on LEED’s impact on design, I am more concerned with the question of contextual relationships in prefabricated housing (especially with such radical forms)."
• "It's basically at the beginning of what we could call prefabricated lighthouses."