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Contrivance

//kənˈtɹaɪ.vəns// noun

Noun

1
A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
2
the act of devising something wordnet
3
A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
"I mean to give something as slight and inexpensive as possible; but I have been so long out of the way of these things, that I am really quite at a loss, and must throw myself on your kindness, as I hope you will be with me, and also Mr. and Mrs. Gooch. You must arrange in such a manner as not to blush for your own contrivances."
4
a device or control that is very useful for a particular job wordnet
5
Something overly artful or artificial.
"When the stamens of a flower suddenly spring towards the pistil, or slowly move one after the other towards it, the contrivance seems adapted solely to ensure self-fertilisation; and no doubt it is useful for this end: but, the agency of insects is often required to cause the stamens to spring forward, as Kölreuter has shown to be the case with the barberry; and curiously in this very genus, which seems to have a special contrivance for self-fertilisation, it is well known that if very closely-allied forms or varieties are planted near each other, it is hardly possible to raise pure seedlings, so largely do they naturally cross."

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6
any improvised arrangement for temporary use wordnet
7
the faculty of contriving; inventive skill wordnet
8
an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. wordnet
9
an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade wordnet

From contrive + -ance.

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