: a prefabricated structure
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Noun
The company sells hundreds of prefabs every year.
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U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
The pencil-thin DQ Tower squeezes a full home into a very slender footprint, while the EONE XL takes a wider prefab approach to the same basic challenge.
—Stefan Ionescu
march 30, New Atlas, 30 Mar. 2026
The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
Normally, textures, sprites, models, shaders, prefabs, etc are all saved locally and loaded at the beginning of each level.
—New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
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Adjective
Building and construction unions no longer can use their old rhetorical cudgel in this debate — calling prefab homes flimsy and unsafe.
—U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
The pencil-thin DQ Tower squeezes a full home into a very slender footprint, while the EONE XL takes a wider prefab approach to the same basic challenge.
—Stefan Ionescu
march 30, New Atlas, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
In another action, in 2024 Gov. Jared Polis announced funds from Proposition 123, which dedicates 0.1% of state income tax revenues to affordable housing, would prioritize prefabs.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
Normally, textures, sprites, models, shaders, prefabs, etc are all saved locally and loaded at the beginning of each level.
—New Atlas, 8 Sep. 2024
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“Prefab.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prefab. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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