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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.
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