noun
- A document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention.
- synonyms: patent of invention
- An official document granting a right or privilege.
- synonyms: letters patent
verb
- Obtain a patent for.
- usage: "Should I patent this invention"
- Grant rights to; grant a patent for.
- Make open to sight or notice.
- usage: "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him"
adjective
- Of a bodily tube or passageway. ( open; affording free passage)
- usage: "patent ductus arteriosus"
- Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment.
- usage: "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"
- synonyms: apparent, evident, manifest, plain, unmistakable
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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