Definition of invention

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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..

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Arquebuse :: Arquebuse (n.) A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention..
Ingenuity :: Ingenuity (n.) The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
Notion :: Notion () An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions..
Excogitation :: Excogitation (n.) The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.
Motive :: Motive (n.) That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one..
Interfere :: Interfere (v. i.) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention.
Budget :: Budget (n.) A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions..
Unoriginated :: Unoriginated (a.) Not yet caused to be, or to be made; as, possible inventions still unoriginated..
Figment :: Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Inventful :: Inventful (a.) Full of invention.
Designment :: Designment (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; 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..
Invention :: Invention (n.) Thought; idea.
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..
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..
Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..
Invention :: Invention (n.) The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention..
Interference :: Interference (n.) The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention..
Contrivement :: Contrivement (n.) Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.
Fecundity :: Fecundity (n.) The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power..
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