Invention is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INVENTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• that which is invented; a contrivance
• the action of inventing something, typically a process or device
• something, typically a process or device, that has been invented
• creative ability
• something fabricated or made up
• used as a title for a short piece of music
• something invented
• 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.
• 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.
• Thought; idea.
• A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
• The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
• 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.
• the creation of something in the mind
• a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
• the act of inventing
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• discovery, finding

Words related to INVENTION

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Words that contain INVENTION

inventions13 inventional14 reinvention14 reinventions15 inventionless16

How to use INVENTION in a sentence

• Henry avoided this difficulty by the invention of what is known as the relay.
• The history of every great invention is a record of struggle, sometimes Heart-breaking, on the part of the inventor to secure and maintain his rights.
• I did not suppose that any other person on board the ship claimed any merit in the invention, or was, in fact, interested to pursue it to maturity as Mr.
• This world-wide war means a general arrest of invention and enterprise, except in the direction of the war business.
• Such men were afraid to supplement tradition with original invention.
• A breech-loading carbine, lately brought across to this country from America as the invention of Mr.
• A Municipality had stolen an invention of excellent fancy, and a fine jest had turned into a horrid piece of cast- iron.
• It was no new truth, no original invention, but merely a simpler combination of old ideas.
• Hammering away at his new invention, he must shortly have hammered it into a shapely axe.
• And the truth is that Turpin was never a gentleman of the road at all! Black Bess is as pure an invention as the famous ride to York.
• The spring of importunate necessity there soon loses its force, and consequently the wheels of invention that depend upon it fail to perform more than a few simple revolutions.
• The whole industrial revolution brought about by the invention of machinery depended upon this principle.
• They are an admirable invention to settle questions of guilty or not guilty, but an enlightened court would, nine times in ten, do more justice in the cases just named.
• He must have invention keeping pace with utterance.
• In spite of this independence and these ambitious inclinations, there seldom appears an invention of his own in language.
• Invention, a very rare excellence, was his pre-eminent gift.
• Others encountered problems of survival which had to be overcome by invention.
• We must observe, however, that only by virtue of a false perspective do ideas seems to govern action, or is a felt necessity the mother of invention.
• It does not account even for their invention, much less for their success.
• These matters were fully mastered in the Edison invention, and the apparatus rendered as completely subject to management as are the other varieties of illuminating agencies.
• But having no need of an application of his invention to the Abbey, I had no opportunity of judging of its effect.

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