French Meaning of invention

invention

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Definitions and Meaning of invention in English

Wordnet

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

Webster

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.

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