Thesaurus: invention

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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. n. Thought; idea.
4. n. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
5. n. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
6. 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.
7. n. the creation of something in the mind
8. n. a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
9. n. the act of inventing
10. The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating atheme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, orthe method of presenting its parts. Invention of the cross (Eccl.), afestival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior'scross by St. Helena.
11. n:100 n. the creation of something in the mind n. a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation n. the act of inventing