: a prefabricated structure
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Noun
The company sells hundreds of prefabs every year.
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Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
The former was met with Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Jamie (Wes Bentley) engaged in a fight to the death, blood flying and flesh ripping like gladiators in his prefab kitchen.
—William Earl, Variety, 16 Dec. 2024
New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
The church property is a sloping, eighteen-acre plot of land that contains the main tent, a prefab where the church holds school, a small building for the Spanish-speaking contingent, and administrative offices.
—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
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Adjective
The prefab modules are stackable in the classic container-home style and are built with walls of sandwich paneling held together by a sturdy steel frame graded for wind and earthquake resistance.
—Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
The former was met with Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Jamie (Wes Bentley) engaged in a fight to the death, blood flying and flesh ripping like gladiators in his prefab kitchen.
—William Earl, Variety, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
Normally, textures, sprites, models, shaders, prefabs, etc are all saved locally and loaded at the beginning of each level.
—New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
The church property is a sloping, eighteen-acre plot of land that contains the main tent, a prefab where the church holds school, a small building for the Spanish-speaking contingent, and administrative offices.
—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
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“Prefab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prefab. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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