| invention | |
| 1. n. Something invented. | |
| My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time. | |
| I'm afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper's invention. | |
| 2. n. The act of inventing. | |
| The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages. | |
| 3. n. The capacity to invent. | |
| It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it. | |
| 4. n. (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions. | |
| I particularly like the inventions in C-minor. | |
| 5. n. (archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery. | |
| That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth. | |
