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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.

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

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.

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