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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Device :: Device (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
Patent :: Patent (a.) A writing securing to an invention.
Inventful :: Inventful (a.) Full of invention.
Specification :: Specification (n.) A written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars, as of charges against a public officer, the terms of a contract, the description of an invention, as in a patent; also, a single article, item, or particular, an allegation of a specific act, as in a charge of official misconduct..
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..
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..
Daguerreian :: Daguerreian (a.) Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype..
Ingenious :: Ingenious (a.) Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic..
Designment :: Designment (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.
Unoriginated :: Unoriginated (a.) Not yet caused to be, or to be made; as, possible inventions still unoriginated..
Design :: Design (n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole..
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..
Witcraft :: Witcraft (n.) Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.
Figment :: Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Interfere :: Interfere (v. i.) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention.
Invention :: Invention (n.) Thought; idea.
Contrivement :: Contrivement (n.) Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.
Notion :: Notion () An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions..
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..
Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..
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