- (n.) The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
- (n.) A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
- (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.) Thought; idea.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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