Australian English Meaning of invention
invention
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Definitions and Meaning of invention in English
invention (n)
the creation of something in the mind
a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
the act of inventing
invention (n.)
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.
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.
Thought; idea.
A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
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.
FAQs About the word invention
invention
the creation of something in the mind, a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation, the act of inventingThe act of finding out
innovation,brainchild,coinage,conception,concoction,contrivance,creation,design,device,gadget
Copy,duplicate,duplication,Facsimile,imitation,replication,Reproduction,Carbon copy,clone,Reduplication
inventing => inventing, inventibleness => inventiveness, inventible => irresistible, inventful => inventive, inventer => inventor,
