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invention    音标拼音: [ɪnv'ɛnʃən]
n. 发明,创作能力,虚构的故事

发明,创作能力,虚构的故事

invention
n 1: the creation of something in the mind [synonym: {invention},
{innovation}, {excogitation}, {conception}, {design}]
2: a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and
experimentation [synonym: {invention}, {innovation}]
3: the act of inventing

Invention \In*ven"tion\, n. [L. inventio: cf. F. invention. See
{Invent}.]
[1913 Webster]
1. 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.
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As the search of it [truth] is the duty, so the
invention will be the happiness of man. --Tatham.
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2. 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; she
patented five inventions.
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We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention
to let one fall if not premonished. --Evelyn.
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3. Thought; idea. --Shak.
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4. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a
falsehood.
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Filling their hearers
With strange invention. --Shak.
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5. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or
ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of
invention.
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They lay no less than a want of invention to his
charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a
maker. --Dryden.
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6. (Fine Arts, Rhet., etc.) 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.
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{Invention of the cross} (Eccl.), a festival celebrated May
3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St.
Helena.
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178 Moby Thesaurus words for "invention":
Nachtmusik, absolute music, adaptation, air varie, aleatory,
aleatory music, apparition, arrangement, artifact, authorship,
beginning, brainchild, breakthrough, bringing to light, bubble,
canard, casual discovery, catching, chamber music,
chamber orchestra, chance discovery, child, chimera, coinage,
composition, conception, concoction, contraption, contrivance,
contriving, creation, creative effort, creativeness, creativity,
creature, crowning achievement, delirium, descant, detection,
determination, determining, development, device, devising,
disclosure, discovery, distillation, distinguishment, effect,
eidolon, electronic music, end product, espial, essence, etude,
excavation, exercise, exhumation, exposure, extract, extravaganza,
fable, fabrication, fake, falsehood, falsification, fancy,
fantasque, fantasy, fecundity, fertile mind, fertility, fib,
fiction, figment, find, finding, finding out, forgery, fruit,
gadget, generation, gizmo, hallucination, handiwork, harmonization,
hatching, idle fancy, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining,
improvisation, incidental music, ingenuity, innovation,
instrumental music, insubstantial image, introduction,
inventiveness, issue, leap, lie, locating, location, lucky strike,
maggot, make-believe, making do, manufacture, masterpiece,
masterwork, mintage, myth, neologism, new mintage, new phase,
nocturne, novelty, offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, orchestration,
original, originality, origination, outcome, outgrowth, phantasm,
phantom, piece, pregnant imagination, prevarication, product,
production, productivity, program music, prolificacy, recognition,
rediscovery, result, revelation, ricercar, romance, score,
serendipity, sham, sick fancy, sonata, sonatina, spotting, story,
strike, string orchestra, string quartet, study, tale, tall story,
tall tale, teeming imagination, theme and variations,
thick-coming fancies, treasure trove, trio, trip, trouvaille,
trove, uncovering, unearthing, vapor, variation, vision, whim,
whimsy, wildest dreams, work, yarn


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  • Invention | Definition, Examples, History, Facts | Britannica
    Invention, the act of bringing ideas or objects together in a novel way to create something that did not exist before Ever since the first prehistoric stone tools, humans have lived in a world shaped by invention
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    The sense of invention most likely to be confused with innovation is “a device, contrivance, or process originated after study and experiment,” usually something which has not previously been in existence
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    An invention is the creation of something new, while innovation is the process of bringing that invention into practical use Think of it this way: the light bulb was an invention, but the development of efficient lighting systems and the infrastructure to power them was innovation
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    If you don't patent your invention, other people may make all the profit out of it The invention of the silicon chip was a landmark in the history of the computer
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    The Archives Center holds a wide variety of collections documenting technology, invention, and innovation in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries
  • Invention Definition Examples - Quickonomics
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  • Invention - definition of invention by The Free Dictionary
    Define invention invention synonyms, invention pronunciation, invention translation, English dictionary definition of invention n 1 The act or process of inventing: used a technique of her own invention 2 A new device, method, or process developed from study and experimentation:





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