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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. Related Definitions:
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Invention Quotations
Necessity... the mother of invention. Plato O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. William Shakespeare Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.' James Naismith The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. Dave Barry |
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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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