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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Interfere :: Interfere (v. i.) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention.
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.
Invention :: Invention (n.) 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..
Designment :: Designment (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.
Invention :: Invention (n.) Thought; idea.
Notion :: Notion () An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions..
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..
Invention :: Invention (n.) 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..
Fecundity :: Fecundity (n.) The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power..
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..
Patent :: Patent (v. t.) To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands..
Contrivement :: Contrivement (n.) Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.
Ingenuity :: Ingenuity (n.) The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
Budget :: Budget (n.) A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions..
Figment :: Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Adroit :: Adroit (a.) Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply..
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..
Patent :: Patent (a.) A writing securing to 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..
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