Definition of invention

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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..

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Fecundity :: Fecundity (n.) The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power..
Daguerreian :: Daguerreian (a.) Pertaining to Daguerre, or to his invention of the daguerreotype..
Design :: Design (n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole..
Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..
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..
Invention :: Invention (n.) Thought; idea.
Interfere :: Interfere (v. i.) To cover the same ground; to claim the same invention.
Invention :: Invention (n.) A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
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..
Ingenuity :: Ingenuity (n.) The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
Figment :: Figment (n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Interference :: Interference (n.) The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention..
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..
Unoriginated :: Unoriginated (a.) Not yet caused to be, or to be made; as, possible inventions still unoriginated..
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..
Designment :: Designment (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; 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..
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.
Notion :: Notion () An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions..
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