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. 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.) 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.
11. 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.
12. 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