Fact

A doing, making, or preparing.

An effect produced or achieved; anything done or that comes to pass; an act; an event; a circumstance.

Reality; actuality; truth; as, he, in fact, excelled all the rest; the fact is, he was beaten.

The assertion or statement of a thing done or existing; sometimes, even when false, improperly put, by a transfer of meaning, for the thing done, or supposed to be done; a thing supposed or asserted to be done; as, history abounds with false facts.

a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"

a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case"