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
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.