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What does forgery mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word forgery? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The act of forging metal into shape.
  2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
  3. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
  4. (archaic) An invention, creation.
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This step is a safety mechanism to prevent prescription forgery because each number can be checked to verify its validity.
This reporter got in on the act by showing the new and improved card that's less susceptible to forgery.
Oddly, the pasticheur closest in spirit to Duchamp's double forgery In the Manner of Delvaux was Marcel Proust.
Forgery of medical certificates has occurred for some time now, he said, however a new trend is forgery of training certificates.
I think that fraud and forgery offences were committed in the name of the prime minister.
A single leaf surviving in manuscript used to be thought to be a forgery, but is now considered a genuine contemporary copy of part of one scene.

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