Synonyms:
invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design
Meaning: the creation of something in the mind
Synonyms:
invention, innovation
Meaning: a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
Synonyms:
invention
Meaning: the act of inventing
Usage examples
Summer resort--another invention of hers--just words, without any meaning.
Invention does not smooth the way for the practical men and make them possible.
Can we suppose that he is ignorant of antiquity, and therefore has recourse to invention?
Such were the very serious consequences of the invention of paper flowers to swim in bowls.
The prizes which are offered for excellence in design and invention have attracted, in some years, as many as two hundred thousand objects.
"That," announced the Shaggy Man, "is a square meal, in condensed form. Invention of the great Professor Woggle-Bug, of the Royal College of Athletics.
The necessity for this invention arose out of the problem of increasing the capacity of telegraph lines employed in "through" and "way" service, such as upon railroads.
The invention of the bicycle with pneumatic tires, coincident with the adoption of electric traction for street cars, reduced the price of horses between 1890 and 1895.
The work of Edison on incandescent lamps did not stop at this fundamental invention, but extended through more than eighteen years of a most intense portion of his busy life.
After the invention of magnetic telegraphy it was found that whenever a great Aurora occurred the telegraph lines were interrupted in their operation, and the ocean cables ceased to work.