Definition of invention

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Invention (n.) The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention..

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Design :: Design (n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole..
Excogitation :: Excogitation (n.) The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.
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..
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.
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..
Device :: Device (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
Designment :: Designment (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.
Patent :: Patent (a.) A writing securing to an invention.
Inventful :: Inventful (a.) Full of invention.
Invention :: Invention (n.) A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
Invention :: Invention (n.) The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention..
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..
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..
Figment :: Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Notion :: Notion () An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions..
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..
Interfere :: Interfere (v. i.) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention.
Fertility :: Fertility (n.) The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination..
Witcraft :: Witcraft (n.) Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit.
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