invention

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) Something invented.
2. (countable, uncountable) The act of inventing.
3. (countable, uncountable) The capacity to invent.
4. (countable, uncountable) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
5. (archaic, countable, uncountable) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

Synonyms

innovation

creation

fiction

contrivance

fabrication

discovery

device

inventiveness

fantasy

falsehood

conception

concoction

fable

figment

plan

excogitation

ingenuity

originality

origination

prevarication

untruth

design

coining

coinage

find

🔍

finding

forgery

gadget

idea

💡

illusion

imagination

make new

innovations

inventing

cock-and-bull story

lash-up

lie

makeup

mintage

neologism

breakthrough

brain-child

appliance

artifice

production

study

tale

undertaking

devisal

diversification

Translations

invention

Erfindung

invenzione

invención

uitvinding

invento

icat

اختراع

vinding

innovación

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪnˈvɛnʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: invencion

In summary

From Middle English invencion, invencioun, from Latin inventiō either directly or via Middle French invencion, from Latin invenīre (“to discover, find, invent”), from in- (“in-: in, into”) + venīre (“to come”). Doublet of inventio. By surface analysis, invent + -ion.
Displaced native Old English orþanc.

Sentences

He credited the invention to Doctor James Anderson of Edinburgh .

The invention of the seed drill dramatically improved germination .

Transistors have replaced relays in many scopes of application since their invention .