Dictionary Entry
invention
invention is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Thought; idea.
- 4noun
A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
- 5noun
The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
the act of inventing
- 8noun
a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
Synonyms
- 9noun
the creation of something in the mind
- 10noun
A new device, method, or process created from study and experimentation.
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