Associations to the word «Invention»
Noun
- Patent
- Inventor
- Edison
- Ingenuity
- Gunpowder
- Transistor
- Printing
- Tesla
- Gin
- Innovation
- Discovery
- Originality
- Microscope
- Novelty
- Infringement
- Telegraph
- Morse
- Disclosure
- Rhetoric
- Loom
- Pendulum
- Vinci
- Telescope
- Typewriter
- Genius
- Gadget
- Calculus
- Sewing
- Thermometer
- Machinery
- Compass
- Apparatus
- Alphabet
- Devise
- Manufacture
- Microprocessor
- Watt
- Nikola
- Galileo
- Copyright
- Filing
- Telephone
- Fable
- Reaper
- Innovator
- Monopoly
- Nobel
- Prehistory
- Photography
- Copying
- Mechanical
- Improvement
- Imagination
- Steam
- Bulb
- Diode
- Dissemination
- Fulton
- Projector
- Leonardo
- Stirrup
- Steamboat
- Plow
- Device
- Perfection
- Machine
- Bach
- Royalty
- Necessity
- Richness
- Plough
Adjective
Wiktionary
INVENTION, noun. Something invented.
INVENTION, noun. The act of inventing.
INVENTION, noun. The capacity to invent.
INVENTION, noun. (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
INVENTION, noun. (archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
INVENTION OF THE CROSS, proper noun. The alleged discovery of the cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified by St Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, in 326 CE.
INVENTION OF THE CROSS, proper noun. The church festival observed on 3 May in commemoration of St Helena's alleged discovery of the so-called True Cross.
Dictionary definition
INVENTION, noun. The creation of something in the mind.
INVENTION, noun. A creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation.
INVENTION, noun. The act of inventing.
Wise words
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.