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Invention
noun
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Noun
- 1 Something invented. countable, uncountable
"My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time."
- 2 the act of inventing wordnet
- 3 The act of inventing. countable, uncountable
"The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages."
- 4 a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation wordnet
- 5 The capacity to invent. countable, uncountable
"It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it."
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- 6 the creation of something in the mind wordnet
- 7 A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions. countable, uncountable
"I particularly like the inventions in C-minor."
- 8 The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery. archaic, countable, uncountable
"That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth."
Etymology
From Middle English invencion, invencioun, from Latin inventiō either directly or via Middle French invencion, from Latin invenīre (“to discover, find, invent”), from in- (“in-: in, into”) + venīre (“to come”). Doublet of inventio. By surface analysis, invent + -ion. Displaced native Old English orþanc.
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