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invention
n. act of inventing; something invented; creativity, resourcefulness; fabrication, falsehood; short composition (Music)


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Invention
An invention is an object, process, or technique which displays an element of novelty. An invention may sometimes be based on earlier developments, collaborations or ideas, and the process of invention requires at least the awareness that an existing concept or method can be modified or transformed into an invention. However, some inventions also represent a radical breakthrough in science or technology which extends the boundaries of human knowledge. Legal protection can sometimes be granted to an invention by way of a patent.
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Invention (die)
n. invention, short composition (Music)

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invention (f)
n. invention, creativeness; contrivance, fabrication, finding; devise, discovering

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Invention
(n.)
Thought; idea.
  
 
(n.)
The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
  
 
(n.)
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.
  
 
(n.)
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.
  
 
(n.)
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.
  
 
(n.)
A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
  

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