invention

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invention (plural inventions)

  1. Something invented.
    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.
    • 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
      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.
  2. The act of inventing.
    The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.
  3. The capacity to invent.
    It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.
  4. (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
    I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.
  5. (archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
    That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth.

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something invented
capacity to invent, act of inventing
A small self-contained musical composition
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invention f. (plural inventions)

  1. invention

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