Dictionary definition(s) for: fact

• n., A condition or event that exists, as distinguished from its effects, consequences, or interpretations, such as a state of things or a motion.
• n., A thing done; an action performed or incident transpiring; an event or circumstance; an actual occurrence; an actual happening in time, space, or an event mental or physical.
  [ General Dictionaries - Black's Law Dictionary ]
  Black's Law Dictionary. 8th ed. Edited by Bryan A.Garner and Henry Campbell Black. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2004.
• n., An event or state of affairs known to have happened or existed. It may be distinguished from law (as in trier of fact) or, in the law of evidence, from opinion.
  [ Government - A Dictionary of Law ]
  A Dictionary of Law. Ed. Elizabeth A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2002. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. University of British Columbia. 4 August 2006 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t49.e1409