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The creation of something in the mind
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Word definitions for invention in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invention \In*ven"tion\, n. [L. inventio: cf. F. invention. See Invent .] 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. As the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the creation of something in the mind [syn: innovation , excogitation , conception , design ] a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation [syn: innovation ] the act of inventing
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In music , an invention is a short composition (usually for a keyboard instrument ) with two-part counterpoint . (Compositions in the same style as an invention but using three-part counterpoint are known as sinfonias . Some modern publishers call them ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE great ▪ Use a diffuser - the greatest frizz-beating invention ever - to dry your hair gently and evenly. ▪ Many of our great inventions first appeared as toys -- fireworks; the steam engine; the gyroscope; laser ...
Usage examples of invention.
Nevertheless, not one for extemporaneous invention, Abraham decided to plunge ahead with his original plea for her blessing.
A preferred method for carrying out the process of this invention is as follows: Dry lysergic acid is suspended in a suitable vehicle as acetonitrile, and the suspension is cooled to about -15 C.
Late in November, Adams submitted to one further ordeal for the sake of posterity, when an itinerant sculptor named John Henry Browere appeared at Quincy to make a life mask by a secret process of his own invention.
There was invention in this early story, and imagination also, altho not so abundant.
The noblest institutions in this part of Spain, the best inventions for comfortable and agreeable living, and all those habitudes and customs which throw a peculiar and Oriental charm over the Andalusian mode of living may be traced to the Moors.
He was the author of numerous inventions, including the cagniardelle, a blowing machine, which consists essentially of an Archimedean screw set obliquely in a tank of water in such a way that its lower end is completely and its upper end partially immersed, and operated by being rotated in the opposite direction to that required for raising water.
Feng returned from Philadelphia, Tom felt that the space model of his invention was well enough along to be turned over to Arv Hanson and the engineering crew.
A knife which would cut the husk of the pod and was so constructed that it could not injure the beans within, would be a useful invention.
He reeled off the contents of his associative circuits relating to Larwich and his theory, reeled them off too rapidly for them to be inventions of the moment.
The very antithesis of commodified fantasy, this book exhibits rare emotion and invention, being rich with both event and meaning.
This easy, computerised sex, the invention of our age, deprived a man of his main, eternal pleasure: the pleasure of playing the role of his life in front of each victim.
Until the invention of printing, Sanskrit was written in regional alphabets but with the adoption of type the north Indian alphabet known as Devanagari became standardised.
One of the inventions to bring the twilight of the gathering into brotherhood with the shadows on the screen is a simple thing known to the trade as the fadeaway, that had its rise in a commonplace fashion as a method of keeping the story from ending with the white glare of the empty screen.
Future scholars will no doubt prove, Hesse suggests, that the legend is nothing but an invention of the popular imagination, constructed according to folkloristic laws of mythmaking.
Von Fraunhofer himself directed his invention to the analysis of light from extraterrestrial sources.