invention meaning
EN[ɪnˈvɛnʃən]US
WInvention
- An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition or process. The invention process is a process within an overall engineering and product development process.
- Some inventions can be patented. A patent legally protects the intellectual property rights of the inventor and legally recognizes that a claimed invention is actually an invention.
- Another meaning of invention is cultural invention, which is an innovative set of useful social behaviours adopted by people and passed on to others. The Institute for Social Inventions collected many such ideas in magazines and books.
FR invention
- NounPLinventionsSUF-tion
- Something invented.
- My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time.
- I'm afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper's invention.
- The act of inventing.
- The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.
- The capacity to invent.
- It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.
- (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
- I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.
- (archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
- That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth.
- Something invented.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- "About 1730 the poet and squireen Huw Hughes wrote to the great scholar Lewis Morris that all the defenders of the old language had gone to sleep." - Prys Morgan, in "The Invention of Tradition"
- The invention breaks ground in its programming and its structure.
- If I behold what inventions men have in comparting Musical intervals...
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of invention in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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- Nouns
- fr invention
- en inventions
- fr inventions
- en inventioneer
Source: Wiktionary