DF-fabricated

Hard to say, Jack-- I'd have to know more about the process involved and what a DF is and what it does exactly. But generally, there is nothing wrong with that sort of structure.

A Demonstration Facility is a facility used to manufacture fuel from various materials (in our case it's graphite, nuclear materials, composite materials etc.). It is called "demonstration" facility becuase it's purpose is to demonstrate that the developed technology works. The fuel is shaped as cylindrical compacts with TRISO coated particles mixed into the graphite matrix.

My question

It's possible that the use of the word differs (mine is AmE) in popular use, but my Shorter Oxford Dictionary certainly lists 'fabricate' as meaning 'manufacture'. So I suspect that the British teacher holds too restricted a view on its meaning. 'DF-fabricated' certainly sounds appropriate to me...but if you are still concerned, why not simply change to 'DF-manufactured' or 'DF-produced'?

Actually the teacher is just one from a forum called Ask a Teacher. My cncern is because the word has been used here and there in our translations and the teacher's answer confused a lot. He still insists it's not proper, and I guess it's because he is British. I have used the word while translating for Americans, and they used it lots of times, and it was no problem at all! I heard the word "fab

You should be aware, Jack, that many teachers hold very idionsyncratic opinions based on their own language experiences. Very few realize the valid options that exist outside their own purviews-- in AmE, BrE, AusE, NZE, IndE, etc.

I quite agree with you on that. In my case, and I studied in Russia, BrE is taught almost everywhere. When teachers hear something pronounced with the AmE accent, they consider it wrong almost always. And it not only related to accents! Some are more stringent on that, some are less.

Anyway, I think that in Britain the verb "fabricate" is mostly used to denote "concoct", and this is the

I would like to say thank you very much for your help, and thank you for your opinion.