Definition of invention

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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..

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Invention :: Invention (n.) The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention..
Device :: Device (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
Unoriginated :: Unoriginated (a.) Not yet caused to be, or to be made; as, possible inventions still unoriginated..
Interfere :: Interfere (v. i.) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention.
Witcraft :: Witcraft (n.) Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.
Contrivement :: Contrivement (n.) Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.
Caveat :: Caveat (n.) A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention..
Genius :: Genius (n.) Distinguished mental superiority; uncommon intellectual power; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations; as, a man of genius..
Ingenuity :: Ingenuity (n.) The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
Device :: Device (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice..
Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..
Fecundity :: Fecundity (n.) The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power..
Notion :: Notion () An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions..
Sound :: Sound (v. i.) To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention..
Composition :: Composition (n.) The invention or combination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music..
Figment :: Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Invention :: Invention (n.) Thought; idea.
Quern :: Quern (n.) A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills..
Design :: Design (n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole..
Invention :: Invention (n.) A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
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