Definitions for invention

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invention in·ven·tion

Spelling: [in-ven-shuh n]

IPA: /ɪnˈvɛn ʃən/

Invention is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in invention (eiinnnotv).

Definitions for invention

noun

1. the act of inventing.
2. U.S. Patent Law. a new, useful process, machine, improvement, etc., that did not exist previously and that is recognized as the product of some unique intuition or genius, as distinguished from ordinary mechanical skill or craftsmanship.
3. anything invented or devised.
4. the power or faculty of inventing, devising, or originating.
5. an act or instance of creating or producing by exercise of the imagination, especially in art, music, etc.
6. something fabricated, as a false statement.
7. Sociology. the creation of a new culture trait, pattern, etc.
8. Music. a short piece, contrapuntal in nature, generally based on one subject.
9. Rhetoric. (traditionally) one of the five steps in speech preparation, the process of choosing ideas appropriate to the subject, audience, and occasion.
10. Archaic. the act of finding.

Origin of invention

1300-50; Middle English invencio(u)n Latin inventiōn- (stem of inventiō) a finding out, equivalent to invent(us) (see invent) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for invention

The maxim proved true: Necessity is the mother of invention.

You know what became way, way, way cooler to go to with the invention of Instagram?

The invention of farming was the initial cause of wars that created peace.

It is Mary Fitton who has "wit and invention," and is "an admirable musician."

Her desperation lent her invention; just in this one way he must not find her out.

For when has Desdemona shown high and plenteous wit or invention?

The titles of two competing 16th-century world maps nicely capture the tension between reflection and invention.

The basic premise that Christians should expect to suffer and be persecuted is not an invention of Rev. Sproul.

Do you object to atheism, and yet regard obedience to God as an invention of the priests?

This scene, be it remarked, is not in Plutarch, but is Shakespeare's own invention.