About The Word Invention

Bay Area Crosswords

Learn about the word Invention to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Invention definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.

Invention

Invention Meaning & Definition
Invention Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Invention?

[n] the act of inventing
[n] a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
[n] the creation of something in the mind

Synonyms | Synonyms for Invention: conception | design | excogitation | innovation | innovation

Related Terms | Find terms related to Invention: absolute music | adaptation | air varie | aleatory | aleatory music | apparition | arrangement | artifact | authorship | beginning | brainchild | breakthrough | bringing to light | bubble | canard | casual discovery | catching | chamber music | chamber orchestra | chance discovery | child | chimera | coinage | composition | conception | concoction | contraption | contrivance | contriving | creation | creative effort | creativeness | creativity | creature | crowning achievement | delirium | descant | detection | determination | determining | development | device | devising | disclosure | discovery | distillation | distinguishment | effect | eidolon | electronic music | end product | espial | essence | etude | excavation | exercise | exhumation | exposure | extract | extravaganza | fable | fabrication | fake | falsehood | falsification | fancy | fantasque | fantasy | fecundity | fertile mind | fertility | fib | fiction | figment | find | finding | finding out | forgery | fruit | gadget | generation | gizmo | hallucination | handiwork | harmonization | hatching | idle fancy | illusion | imagery | imagination | imagining | improvisation | incidental music | ingenuity | innovation | instrumental music | insubstantial image | introduction | inventiveness | issue | leap | lie | locating | location | lucky strike | maggot | make-believe | making do | manufacture | masterpiece | masterwork | mintage | myth | Nachtmusik | neologism | new mintage | new phase | nocturne | novelty | offspring | opera | opus | opuscule | orchestration | original | originality | origination | outcome | outgrowth | phantasm | phantom | piece | pregnant imagination | prevarication | product | production | productivity | program music | prolificacy | recognition | rediscovery | result | revelation | ricercar | romance | score | serendipity | sham | sick fancy | sonata | sonatina | spotting | story | strike | string orchestra | string quartet | study | tale | tall story | tall tale | teeming imagination | theme and variations | thick-coming fancies | treasure trove | trio | trip | trouvaille | trove | uncovering | unearthing | vapor | variation | vision | whim | whimsy | wildest dreams | work | yarn

See Also | coinage | concoction | contrivance | contrivance | creating by mental acts | creation | creativeness | creativity | devisal | neologism | neology

Invention In Webster's Dictionary

\In*ven"tion\, n. [L. inventio: cf. F. invention. See {Invent}.] 1. The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing. As the search of it [truth] is the duty, so the invention will be the happiness of man. --Tatham. 2. That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention. We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished. --Evelyn. 3. Thought; idea. --Shak. 4. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. --Shak. 5. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker. --Dryden. 6. (Fine Arts, Rhet., etc.) The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts. {Invention of the cross} (Eccl.), a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena.

More Crossword Puzzle Words

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Cross Word Of The Day

  • Full admiral ‐ the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral…
  • Fecal impaction ‐ accumulation of hardened feces in the rectum or lower colon which…
  • Step to the fore ‐ make oneself visible; take action; "Young people should step…
  • Leaker ‐ a surreptitious informant; "the president wanted to know who…
  • Heaven ‐ any place of complete bliss and delight and peace [n] the abode…
  • Timeserving ‐ taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance…
  • Wpm ‐ the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking…
  • Reciter ‐ someone who recites…
  • Emil hermann fischer ‐ German chemist noted for work on synthetic sugars and the purines…
  • Date bread ‐ bread containing…