INVENTION
\ɪnvˈɛnʃən], \ɪnvˈɛnʃən], \ɪ_n_v_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of INVENTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.
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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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Thought; idea.
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The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.
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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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Thought; idea.
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The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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That which is invented: contrivance: a deceit: power or faculty of inventing: ability displayed by any invention or effort of the imagination.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The act or process of inventing.
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That which is invented; a device; contrivance.
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Skill or ingenuity in contriving.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The contrivance of that which did not before exist; contrivance; that which is invented; an original contrivance; fiction; fabrication; the power of imaginative conception; imaginative faculty or ability; discovery.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act or operation of finding out or contriving something new; the article invented; forgery; fiction; in the fine arts, a term employed to designate the conception or representation of a subject, and generally the whole means by which the artist seeks to portray his thoughts.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Act of finding out or producing something new ; power of designing or contriving;—that which is invented ; discovery of a new power in nature, contrivance of a new mechanism, formation of a new design, and the application of such to the industrial arts ;—fabrication ; forgery ;- the artistic power of selecting and adapting materials to the proposed end or design.
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