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invention

/ˌɪnˈvɛnʃən/

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What does invention mean?

noun

  1. Something invented.
  2. The act of inventing.
  3. The capacity to invent.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
  2. (archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˌɪnˈvɛnʃən/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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“It’s my own invention—to keep clothes and sandwiches in. You see I carry it upside-down, so that the rain can’t get in.”
Lewis CarrollThrough the Looking-GlassProject Gutenberg ebook #12
Shakespeare pronounced “Venus and Adonis” “the first heir of his invention,” apparently implying that it was his first effort at literary composition.
Mark TwainWhat Is Man? and Other EssaysProject Gutenberg ebook #70
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That she should be obliged to do what she intensely disliked, was an idea which turned her quiet tenacity into active invention.
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
When labouring upon his invention at Glasgow, Watt was baffled and thrown into despair by the clumsiness and incompetency of his workmen.
Samuel SmilesIndustrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool MakersProject Gutenberg ebook #404
Nowadays a balloon's pace can be accelerated by means of a powerful motor-engine, but the invention of the petrol-engine is very recent.
William J. ClaxtonThe mastery of the airProject Gutenberg ebook #777