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Invention
Webster's Dictionary
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(1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(n.) The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
(4):
(n.) A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) Thought; idea.
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Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Invention'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/i/invention.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Invention'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/i/invention.html. 1828.
