Definition of Invention

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Invention

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.

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.

Thought; idea.

A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.

The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.

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.

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Invention Quotations

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway

Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Jonathan Swift

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Jonathan Swift

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Norman Borlaug

Invention Translations

invention in Danish is opfindelse
invention in Dutch is uitvinding
invention in German is Erfindung
invention in Italian is invenzione
invention in Norwegian is oppfinnelse

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