Meaning of invention | Babel Free

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1. creation
2. Something invented
3. Something invented.
   countable, uncountable
4. The act of inventing
5. The act of inventing.
   countable, uncountable
6. good at inventing. an inventive mind. vindingryke مُبْتَكِر، مُخْتَرِع изобретателен inventivo vynalézavý erfinderisch opfindsom εφευρετικός, πολυμήχανοςinventivo leidlik خلاق kekseliäs inventif בַּעַל כּוֹשֶר המַצָאָה आविष्कारी izumiteljski leleményes pandai mencipta hugvitssamur inventivo 発明の才がある 독창적인 išradingas atjautīgs; izgudrojošs pandai mencipta vindingrijkoppfinnsompomysłowy خلاق، قوى فكر inventivo inventiv изобретательный vynaliezavý iznajdljiv, domiseln inventivan uppfinningsrik, fy...
7. The capacity to invent
8. The capacity to invent.
   countable, uncountable
9. vindingrykheid القُدْرَه على الإخْتِراع изобретателност invenção vynalézavost die Erfindungsgabe opfindsomhed εφευρετικότηταinventiva leidlikkus خلاقیت kekseliäisyys esprit d'invention כּוֹשֶר המַצָאָה आविष्कारशीलता izumiteljstvo leleményesség kepandaian hugvitssemi inventiva 発明の才 독창성 išradingumas atjautība penciptaan vindingrijkheid oppfinnsomhet pomysłowość خلاقيت، د قوى فكر درلودنه invenção inventivitate изобретательность vynaliezavosť iznajdljivost inventivnost uppfinningsförmåga เป็นการป...
10. A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions
11. A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
    countable, uncountable
12. a person who invents. Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone. uitvinder مُخْتَرِع изобретател inventor vynálezce der/die Erfinder(in) opfinder εφευρέτηςinventor leiutaja مخترع keksijä inventeur/-trice מַמצִיא आविषकारक izumitelj feltaláló pencipta uppfinningamaður inventore 発明者 발명가 išradėjas izgudrotājs pencipta uitvinderoppfinnerwynalazca اختراع كوونكى inventor inventator изобретатель vynálezca izumitelj izumitelj uppfinnare นักประดิษฐ์ mucit, icat eden kimse 發明者 винахідник م...
13. The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery
14. The act or process of inventing: used a technique of her own invention.
15. The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
16. A new device, method, or process developed from study and experimentation: the phonograph, an invention attributed to Thomas Edison.
17. A mental fabrication, especially a falsehood.
18. Skill in inventing; inventiveness: "the invention and sweep of the staging" (John Simon).
19. Music A short composition developing a single theme contrapuntally.
    Music
20. A discovery; a finding.
21. the act or process of inventing

Equivalents

Examples

“My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time.”

“I’m afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper’s invention.”

“Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long distance at half past six. […] Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention.”

“British inventions have done more to influence the shape of the modern world than those of any other country. Many—football, the steam engine and Worcestershire sauce, to take a random selection—have spread pleasure, goodwill and prosperity. Others—the Maxim gun, the Shrapnel shell and jellied eels—have not.”

“The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.”

“Invention, or the Genius of Hiſtoricizing and framing a Noble Idea upon the Subject one vvould Paint, is a particular Talent, not to be acquir'd by Study or Labour; but is properly a certain ardor exciting the Imagination, prompting and enabling it to Act.”

“Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…].”

“It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.”

“I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.”

“INVENTION. A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces — 15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts — each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.”

“That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth.”

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