invention
(noun) the act of inventing
invention, innovation
(noun) a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
(noun) the creation of something in the mind
Source: WordNet® 3.1
invention (countable and uncountable, plural inventions)
Something invented.
The act of inventing.
The capacity to invent.
(music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
(archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
• discovery
Source: Wiktionary
In*ven"tion, n. Etym: [L. inventio: cf. F. invention. See Invent.]
1. 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 search of it [truth] is the duty, so the invention will be the happiness of man. Tatham.
2. 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. We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished. Evelyn.
3. Thought; idea. Shak.
4. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. Shak.
5. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker. Dryden.
6. (Fine Arts, Rhet., etc.)
Definition: 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. Invention of the cross (Eccl.), a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
