invention

invention has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• noun. A new device, method, or process created from study and experimentation.
• 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.
• 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.
• n.. Thought; idea.
• n.. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
• n.. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
• 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.
• n.. the act of inventing
• n.. a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
• n.. the creation of something in the mind