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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 - Wikipedia
    An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea, or process An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost It may also be an entirely new concept
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    Innovation, for its part, can refer to something new or to a change made to an existing product, idea, or field One might say that the first telephone was an invention, the first cellular telephone either an invention or an innovation, and the first smartphone an innovation
  • 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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  • Invention - Chronology, Innovations, History | Britannica
    innovation, the creation of a new way of doing something, whether the enterprise is concrete (e g , the development of a new product) or abstract (e g , the development of a new philosophy or theoretical approach to a problem)
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    INVENTION definition: 1 something that has never been made before, or the process of creating something that has never… Learn more
  • Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia
    The dates listed in this section refer to the earliest evidence of an invention found and dated by archaeologists (or in a few cases, suggested by indirect evidence)
  • Inventions and Science: Ideas and Inventors | HISTORY
    Science and inventions have propelled human progress, as well as led to human destruction From the creation of the first stone tools to reusable space rockets to the atomic bomb, each step
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