invention

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Often we lack to words to articulate resistance as the invention is a new noun whose verbal effect lags in its wake.

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  1. noun The act or process of inventing: used a technique of her own invention.
  2. noun A new device, method, or process developed from study and experimentation: the phonograph, an invention attributed to Thomas Edison.
  3. noun A mental fabrication, especially a falsehood.
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  • For many years after his invention was a proved success, almost to the day of his death, he was compelled to fight for his rights; but he was a good fighter, a skilled controversialist, and he has won out in the end. —  Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals
  • Often we lack to words to articulate resistance as the invention is a new noun whose verbal effect lags in its wake. —  The TrueTalk Blog
  • I had the client send me the VC pitch which had all sorts of sexy information in it about why this invention was the greatest thing since sliced bread. —  Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
  • After beating all around the bush, he finally admitted that his invention was a development of my little toy. —  By Proxy
  • In his application Peter Cooper states, "This invention is a suitable motor for hauling land-carriages It was one year before this that Stephenson in England had given an exhibition of his locomotive, the "Rocket," on a circular two-mile track in Manchester. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen
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  1. Middle English invencioun, scheme, plan, from Old French invencion, a finding out, from Latin inventiō, inventiōn-, inventiveness, from inventus, past participle of invenīre, to find; see invent.

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  1. = French invention = Provencal inventio = Spanish invencion = Portuguese invenção = Italian invenzione, from Latin inventio(n-), finding, discovery, invention, from invenire, past participle inventus, come upon, find: see invent.
 

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