: a prefabricated structure
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Noun
The company sells hundreds of prefabs every year.
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Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 June 2025
While customization remains a hurdle, innovations in computational design and manufacturing partnerships are pushing the limits of what prefab construction can offer.
—Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
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
There’s a gated driveway and car port tucked way off and alley, and a detached prefab ADU by Jason Halter of Wonder has a outside entrance from the street and adds another bedroom.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 June 2025
While customization remains a hurdle, innovations in computational design and manufacturing partnerships are pushing the limits of what prefab construction can offer.
—Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
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 Jul. 2025.
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