1. A story, a lie, an excuse, etc. that has been invented or made up and is not true: Leslie was told by his mother to quit making up fabrications about how the window was broken by someone else and not by him.
2. The construction of something: It was obvious that the contractor was making a big effort to have his carpenters complete the house as soon as possible so they could start building another one that had been requested by the Roderick family. © ALL rights are reserved.

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A large animal of the genus Connochaetes: The gnu is like a large antelope, indigenous to Africa and has relatively long curving horns.

A new fashion-male term for swimsuit: A mankini is a masculine term the female "bikini" which is a woman's very brief bathing suit.

Some beaches have reported mankini violations by men who were wearing throng-like suits with halter straps which were considered unacceptable for public viewing.

1. A worthless, disreputable, or malicious person.
2. A no-good person.

The science and technology involved in transmitting signals over great distances: With the use of telemetry, measurements are made and other data collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring, display, and recording.

Originally, the information was sent over wires, but modern telemetry more commonly uses radio transmission.

Basically, the process is the same in either case. Among the major applications are monitoring electric-power plants, gathering meteorological data, and monitoring manned and unmanned space flights.

Aerospace telemetry for rockets and satellites was inaugurated with the Soviet satellite Sputnik, launched in 1957, and systems have grown in size and complexity since then.

Observatory satellites have performed as many as 50 different experiments and observations, with all data telemetered back to a ground station.

The techniques developed in aerospace have been successfully applied to many industrial operations, including the transmission of data from inside internal-combustion engines during tests, from steam turbines in operation, and from conveyor belts inside mass-production ovens.