The word invention means

An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an idea is unique enough either as a stand alone invention or as a significant improvement over the work of others, it can be patented. A patent, if granted, gives the inventor a proprietary interest in the patent over a specific period of time, which can be licensed for financial gain.

An inventor creates or discovers an invention. The word inventor comes from the Latin verb invenire, invent-, to find.^[1]^[2] Although inventing is closely associated with science and engineering, inventors are not necessarily engineers or scientists.^[3] Due to advances in artificial intelligence, the term «inventor» no longer exclusively applies to an occupation (see human computers).^[4]

Some inventions can be patented. The system of patents was established to encourage inventors by granting limited-term, limited monopoly on inventions determined to be sufficiently novel, non-obvious, and useful. A patent legally protects the intellectual property rights of the inventor and legally recognizes that a claimed invention is actually an invention. The rules and requirements for patenting an invention vary by country and the process of obtaining a patent is often expensive.

Another meaning of invention is cultural invention, which is an innovative set of useful social behaviours adopted by people and passed on to others.^[5] The Institute for Social Inventions collected many such ideas in magazines and books.^[6] Invention is also an important component of artistic and design creativity. Inventions often extend the boundaries of human knowledge, experience or capability.

Types[edit]

Inventions are of three kinds: scientific-technological (including medicine), sociopolitical (including economics and law), and humanistic, or cultural.

Scientific-technological inventions include railroads, aviation, vaccination, hybridization, antibiotics, astronautics, holography, the atomic bomb, computing, the Internet, and the smartphone.

Sociopolitical inventions comprise new laws, institutions, and procedures that change modes of social behavior and establish new forms of human interaction and organization. Examples include the British Parliament, the US Constitution, the Manchester (UK) General Union of Trades, the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross, the Olympic Games, the United Nations, the European Union, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as movements such as socialism, Zionism, suffragism, feminism, and animal-rights veganism.

Humanistic inventions encompass culture in its entirety and are as transformative and important as any in the sciences, although people tend to take them for granted. In the domain of linguistics, for example, many alphabets have been inventions, as are all neologisms (Shakespeare invented about 1,700 words). Literary inventions include the epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel, the sonnet, the Renaissance, neoclassicism, Romanticism, Symbolism, Aestheticism, Socialist Realism, Surrealism, postmodernism, and (according to Freud) psychoanalysis. Among the inventions of artists and musicians are oil painting, printmaking, photography, cinema, musical tonality, atonality, jazz, rock, opera, and the symphony orchestra. Philosophers have invented logic (several times), dialectics, idealism, materialism, utopia, anarchism, semiotics, phenomenology, behaviorism, positivism, pragmatism, and deconstruction. Religious thinkers are responsible for such inventions as monotheism, pantheism, Methodism, Mormonism, iconoclasm, puritanism, deism, secularism, ecumenism, and the Baháʼí Faith. Some of these disciplines, genres, and trends may seem to have existed eternally or to have emerged spontaneously of their own accord, but most of them have had inventors.^[7]

Process[edit]

Practical means[edit]

Ideas for an invention may be developed on paper or on a computer, by writing or drawing, by trial and error, by making models, by experimenting, by testing and/or by making the invention in its whole form. Brainstorming also can spark new ideas for an invention. Collaborative creative processes are frequently used by engineers, designers, architects and scientists. Co-inventors are frequently named on patents.

In addition, many inventors keep records of their working process — notebooks, photos, etc., including Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Evangelista Torricelli, Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein.^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

In the process of developing an invention, the initial idea may change. The invention may become simpler, more practical, it may expand, or it may even morph into something totally different. Working on one invention can lead to others too.^[12]

History shows that turning the concept of an invention into a working device is not always swift or direct. Inventions may also become more useful after time passes and other changes occur. For example, the parachute became more useful once powered flight was a reality.^[13]

Conceptual means[edit]

Invention is often a creative process. An open and curious mind allows an inventor to see beyond what is known. Seeing a new possibility, connection or relationship can spark an invention. Inventive thinking frequently involves combining concepts or elements from different realms that would not normally be put together. Sometimes inventors disregard the boundaries between distinctly separate territories or fields.^{[citation needed]} Several concepts may be considered when thinking about invention.

Play[edit]

Play may lead to invention. Childhood curiosity, experimentation, and imagination can develop one’s play instinct. Inventors feel the need to play with things that interest them, and to explore, and this internal drive brings about novel creations.^[14]^[15]

Sometimes inventions and ideas may seem to arise spontaneously while daydreaming, especially when the mind is free from its usual concerns.^[16] For example, both J. K. Rowling (the creator of Harry Potter)^[17] and Frank Hornby (the inventor of Meccano)^[18] first had their ideas while on train journeys.

In contrast, the successful aerospace engineer Max Munk advocated «aimful thinking».^[19]

Re-envisioning[edit]

To invent is to see anew. Inventors often envision a new idea, seeing it in their mind’s eye. New ideas can arise when the conscious mind turns away from the subject or problem when the inventor’s focus is on something else, or while relaxing or sleeping. A novel idea may come in a flash—a Eureka! moment. For example, after years of working to figure out the general theory of relativity, the solution came to Einstein suddenly in a dream «like a giant die making an indelible impress, a huge map of the universe outlined itself in one clear vision».^[20] Inventions can also be accidental, such as in the case of polytetrafluoroethylene (Teflon).

Insight[edit]

Insight can also be a vital element of invention. Such inventive insight may begin with questions, doubt or a hunch. It may begin by recognizing that something unusual or accidental may be useful or that it could open a new avenue for exploration. For example, the odd metallic color of plastic made by accidentally adding a thousand times too much catalyst led scientists to explore its metal-like properties, inventing electrically conductive plastic and light emitting plastic-—an invention that won the Nobel Prize in 2000 and has led to innovative lighting, display screens, wallpaper and much more (see conductive polymer, and organic light-emitting diode or OLED).^[21]

Exploration[edit]

A rare 1884 photo showing the experimental recording of voice patterns by a photographic process at the Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory in Washington, D.C. Many of their experimental designs panned out in failure.

Invention is often an exploratory process with an uncertain or unknown outcome. There are failures as well as successes. Inspiration can start the process, but no matter how complete the initial idea, inventions typically must be developed.

Improvement[edit]

Inventors may, for example, try to improve something by making it more effective, healthier, faster, more efficient, easier to use, serve more purposes, longer lasting, cheaper, more ecologically friendly, or aesthetically different, lighter weight, more ergonomic, structurally different, with new light or color properties, etc.

Implementation[edit]

In economic theory, inventions are one of the chief examples of «positive externalities», a beneficial side effect that falls on those outside a transaction or activity. One of the central concepts of economics is that externalities should be internalized—unless some of the benefits of this positive externality can be captured by the parties, the parties are under-rewarded for their inventions, and systematic under-rewarding leads to under-investment in activities that lead to inventions. The patent system captures those positive externalities for the inventor or other patent owner so that the economy as a whole invests an optimum amount of resources in the invention process.

Comparison with innovation[edit]

In contrast to invention, innovation is the implementation of a creative idea that specifically leads to greater value or usefulness. That is, while an invention may be useless or have no value yet still be an invention, an innovation must have some sort of value, typically economic.

As defined by patent law[edit]

The term invention is also an important legal concept and central to patent law systems worldwide. As is often the case for legal concepts, its legal meaning is slightly different from common usage of the word. Additionally, the legal concept of invention is quite different in American and European patent law.

In Europe, the first test a patent application must pass is, «Is this an invention?» If it is, subsequent questions are whether it is new and sufficiently inventive. The implication—counter-intuitively—is that a legal invention is not inherently novel. Whether a patent application relates to an invention is governed by Article 52 of the European Patent Convention, that excludes, e.g., discoveries as such and software as such. The EPO Boards of Appeal decided that the technical character of an application is decisive for it to represent an invention, following an age-old Italian and German tradition. British courts don’t agree with this interpretation. Following a 1959 Australian decision («NRDC»), they believe that it is not possible to grasp the invention concept in a single rule. A British court once stated that the technical character test implies a «restatement of the problem in more imprecise terminology.»

In the United States, all patent applications are considered inventions. The statute explicitly says that the American invention concept includes discoveries (35 USC § 100(a)), contrary to the European invention concept. The European invention concept corresponds to the American «patentable subject matter» concept: the first test a patent application is submitted to. While the statute (35 USC § 101)^[22] virtually poses no limits to patenting whatsoever, courts have decided in binding precedents that abstract ideas, natural phenomena and laws of nature are not patentable. Various attempts have been made to substantiate the «abstract idea» test, which suffers from abstractness itself, but none have succeeded. The last attempt so far was the «machine or transformation» test, but the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 2010 that it is merely an indication at best.

In India, invention means a new product or process that involves an inventive step, and capable of being made or used in an industry. Whereas, «new invention» means any invention that has not been anticipated in any prior art or used in the country or anywhere in the world.^[23]

In the arts[edit]

Invention has a long and important history in the arts. Inventive thinking has always played a vital role in the creative process.^[24] While some inventions in the arts are patentable, others are not because they cannot fulfill the strict requirements governments have established for granting them. (see patent).

Some inventions in art include the:

Collage and construction invented by Picasso
Readymade art invented by Marcel Duchamp
mobile invented by Alexander Calder
Combine invented by Robert Rauschenberg
Shaped painting invented by Frank Stella
Motion picture, the invention of which is attributed to Eadweard Muybridge^[25]^[26]

Likewise, Jackson Pollock invented an entirely new form of painting and a new kind of abstraction by dripping, pouring, splashing and splattering paint onto un-stretched canvas lying on the floor.

Inventive tools of the artist’s trade also produced advances in creativity. Impressionist painting became possible because of newly invented collapsible, resealable metal paint tubes that facilitated spontaneous painting outdoors.^[27] Inventions originally created in the form of artwork can also develop other uses, e.g. Alexander Calder’s mobile, which is now commonly used over babies’ cribs. Funds generated from patents on inventions in art, design and architecture can support the realization of the invention or other creative work. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s 1879 design patent on the Statue of Liberty helped fund the famous statue because it covered small replicas, including those sold as souvenirs.^[28]

The timeline for invention in the arts lists the most notable artistic inventors.

Gender gap in inventions[edit]

Historically, women in many regions have been unrecognised for their inventive contributions (except Russia and France^[29]), despite being the sole inventor or co-inventor in inventions, including highly notable inventions. Notable examples include Margaret Knight who faced significant challenges in receiving credit for her inventions;^[30] Elizabeth Magie who was not credited for her invention of the game of Monopoly;^[31] and among other such examples, Chien-Shiung Wu whose male colleagues alone were awarded the Nobel Prize for their joint contributions to physics.^[32] Societal prejudice, institutional, educational and often legal patent barriers have both played a role in the gender invention gap. For example, although there could be found female patenters in US patent Office who also are likely to be helpful in their experience, still a patent applications made to the US Patent Office for inventions are less likely to succeed where the applicant have a «feminine» name,^[33] and additionally women could lose their independent legal patent rights to their husbands once married.^[34] See also the gender gap in patents.

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What do we mean by invention?

The act or process of inventing. noun

A new device, method, or process developed from study and experimentation. noun

A mental fabrication, especially a falsehood. noun

Skill in inventing; inventiveness. noun

A short composition developing a single theme contrapuntally. noun

A discovery; a finding. noun

A finding. Obsolete, or archaic, as in the phrase Invention of the Cross. See cross. noun

The act or process of finding out how to make something previously unknown, or how to do something in a new way; original contrivance; creation by a new use of means: as, the invention of printing; the invention of the steamengine, or of an improved steam-engine. noun

That which is invented; something previously unknown, or some new modification of an existing thing, produced by an original use of means; an original contrivance or device. When used absolutely, it generally denotes a new mechanical device, or a new process in one of the useful arts. noun

Specifically, in music, a short piece in which a single thought is worked out, usually contrapuntally, but with the comparative simplicity of an impromptu or of a study. noun

The act of producing by the exercise of the imagination; mental fabrication or creation: as, the invention of plots or of excuses. noun

The faculty or power of inventing; skill or ingenuity in original contrivance; the gift of finding out or producing new forms, methods, processes, effects, etc.; in art and lit., the exercise of imagination in production; the creative faculty. noun

A coming in; arrival. noun

The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed noun

That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device noun

Thought; idea. noun

A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. noun

The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new. noun

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. noun

A festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior’s cross by St. Helena. noun

Something invented.

The act of inventing.

The capacity to invent.

A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.

The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

Come up with Urban Dictionary

To make something popular, or a trend.
Opposed to the literal definition of invent, to claim that one invented something means they endorsed said thing to it’s popularity. Urban Dictionary

Not to be confused with, and the exact opposite of, to discover. Urban Dictionary

The invention is a device that helps u get really high when smoking a joint. Essentially the invention traps the smoke off of the cherry of the joint then after your hit of the joint u inhale the smoke you trapped. It was invented by Wyatt but now he no longer uses his invention because he says its N A S T y Urban Dictionary

Having the ability to create or design new things or to think originally. Urban Dictionary

To invent something stupid Urban Dictionary

1. n, An invention that has not yet been invented.
2. n, an invention that is still an idea Urban Dictionary

Pronunciation: in-‘ven(t)-i-tes
Function: noun
1. the extreme longing to invent something; most often a new word.
2. inflammation of an invention. Urban Dictionary

From «invent» and «invitation». Lacking a formal invitation, inventing your own; to invite one’s self Urban Dictionary

Get out of here with your bs ideas
Get lost with your absurd ideas Urban Dictionary

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Invention
Patent
Meeting needs
Characteristics
Examples of Inventions
Difference between invention and discovery
The difference between invention and innovation
Examples of Ancient Inventions
Examples of Inventions of the Past Century
Examples of Modern Inventions
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Invention

The word Invento comes from the Latin «Inventus», and this, in turn, is composed of the prefix (In, which means inward) and (Ventus, which means to come) but the meaning given to this word was interpreted as something new that comes or is found within a person.

I mean, that thought a guy might get for the first time.

Likewise, it refers to the invented thing or to the action and effect of inventing (finding or discovering something new or unknown). The person who devotes his or her time to these discoveries is known as the inventor.

Inventions can be based on previous ideas or existing objects. However, the invention process may include modifications or innovations that lead to something new.

When creation arises from the inventiveness of the person and without concrete antecedents, the invention supposes a great contribution to human knowledge.

In addition, this process implies the birth of a new tool, advance or resource and is a transformative proposal that will try to optimize daily activities.

Patent

Inventions can be protected through a patent. This legal remedy implies that the exploitation of the invention is only allowed to the owner of the patent.

Usually, the inventor himself is responsible for processing and obtaining the patent, although in some cases the inventor sells the rights to a company.

Once the patent is in place, the company is able to commercially exploit the invention and produce it on a large scale.

Meeting needs

Throughout history, the invention was essentially linked to the various needs that humanity had and needed to satisfy in some way.

Meanwhile, man and his natural reasoning capacity allowed him to advance in this aspect and to find effective solutions to his demands.

The prehistoric human being invented tools from elements and materials around him in nature and used them to solve his needs.

Many of them needed his inventiveness and so he transformed and improved them to make them useful.

Characteristics

An invention has as particular characteristics the fact that it is unique and innovative; inventing consists of discovering and manufacturing something that no one else has ever known.

In most cases the invention comes from the creativity of the person, that is to say, he imagines it without having anything as a basis or particular inspiration, he simply thought about it and materialized it.

There are also other cases where inventions are based on existing objects, but something is added or modified that makes them something new.

Man has always had and will always have needs to satisfy, and the way he has sought to do so is through the creation of new instruments.

These were achieved thanks to his reasoning capacity, and as an immediate consequence of this, the limits of human knowledge have been extended, since it is revealing something that was unknown until then.

When these new tools are created, the main aim is to facilitate all those tasks that we carry out in our daily lives.

Examples of Inventions

The man has been dedicated to the invention since its origins. The development of language (a system of signs) is often considered the first great invention in history.

Most of the physical inventions (with concrete and real objects) dating back to prehistoric times were made in stone, like the first wheels.

We could also highlight, for example, the automobile as one of the most significant inventions.

It was in 1885 that the German engineer Karl Friedrich Benz invented what is considered to be the first car. And so a means of transport was born that revolutionized not only society but also communication and the economy.

Another of the most important inventions that have been considered throughout history is the light bulb.

The American Thomas Alva Edison is the father of the same one that was developed in the 19th century and that was also a major event that changed our lives.

However, it should not be forgotten that this figure also developed other significant inventions such as the phonograph or the dictaphone.

Penicillin, the contraceptive pill, the radio or television, the telephone, the computer or the Internet are other inventions that have most marked us and have served us well since their appearance.

Difference between invention and discovery

One thing we must make clear because they are often confused is that an invention is not the same as a discovery.

The first is something that existed and that arises thanks to the ingenuity of the human being, while the second is the discovery of something that already existed but remained hidden for x reason from the knowledge of man and he suddenly finds it.

Although it is not the only use of the term, it is also recurrent that it is used to give an account of what was invented, that is, the result of the aforementioned action of inventing.
Meanwhile, the individual responsible for the action of inventing is popularly known as the inventor.

The difference between invention and innovation

The invention solves a particular problem and does not necessarily relate to the context.
Innovation appears to solve a problem and connects with context and needs.

It is common that the invention does not end up in the market, remaining in the hands of its»inventor» and depends on a key factor such as timing.

For there to be Innovation, it is a condition that a considerable number of people need it and adopts it as a new way of doing things.

For the Invention, there is no evolution over time. It may be improved or optimized, but as it has no specific demand or use, it is difficult to evolve (unless the inventor wants to improve it).

Innovation is being perfected. It can be used for other innovations or inventions. The main difference is that by having a specific market or demand, you get feedback that can be used to improve the user experience (or sell more!).

Examples of Ancient Inventions

XXXV century BC (before Christ). The Mesopotamian civilization invented the wheel, probably one of the most important inventions in history, although its invention is believed to have been a progressive evolution of the roller with the sled.
The 3rd century BC Archimedes invented the Archimedes Screw to lift water and wheat grains.
The 5th century B.C. Democritus states his theory about the atom.
1300 B.C. The Chinese invented the first counting device, the Abacus.
121 B.C. The Chinese create the compass.

Examples of Inventions of the Past Century

— 1440. Gutenberg invented the mobile metal characters for the printing press.
— 1608. Hans Lippershey invents the first telescope.
— 1665. Newton enunciates the theory of universal gravitation.
— 1753. Franklin formulates the theory about the existence of electricity in the atmosphere. Invent the lightning rod.
— 1782. James Watt builds the double-acting steam engine. Several steam engines had been invented before, but this was the one used to make objects in the industrial revolution.

— 1783. The Montgolfier brothers raise their first aerostat, what is now known as a hot air balloon.
— 1788. Fulton applies steam to navigation, to move ships.
— 1800. Alessandro Volta invents the electric battery that bears his name.
— 1838. Morse patents the telegraph. He also invented the famous Morse code to transmit messages.
— 1839 The Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan built the first bicycle, but it was not his compatriot Gavin Dalzell who patented it, to whom I attribute his creation for half a century.
— 1860. Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir invented the first internal combustion engine, burning gas inside a cylinder.
— 1875. Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone conversation. I’m inventing the Phone. See mobile phone.
— 1876. Nikolaus August Otto invents the first petrol engine. Today’s gasoline engines are called Otto Engines.

— 1877. Thomas Alva Edison patented more than 1,000 inventions during his lifetime. He invented the phonograph, a device that reproduced sounds, the ancestor of the record player.
-1895. Guillermo Marconi makes his first radio transmission. Roentgen gets the X-ray of a hand from his wife.
— 1896. Becquerel discovers the radioactivity.
— 1897. Felix Hoffmann invented aspirin at Bayer Laboratories. Medicine with multiple therapeutic applications against pain.
— 1898. The Curie couple discovers polonium.

Examples of Modern Inventions

— 1903. Wilbur and Orville Wright («Wright brothers») fly the first powered airplane.
— 1905. Albert Einstein publishes his theory of relativity.
— 1924. John Baird makes the first television broadcast. Goddard launches the first rocket powered by liquid fuel.
— 1826. William Talbot, the inventor of one of the first cameras. Joseph Nicephore Niépce had produced the first known photograph on a pewter plate.
— 1831. Michael Faraday invented the first Dynamo and the electric motor that produced and generated electric current.
— 1895 The Lumiére Brothers (Louis and Augusté Lumière) invented the first cinematographic video camera. I could create moving images.
— 1923 The Spaniard Juan de la Cierva invents the gyroplane, the predecessor of the helicopter.

— 1928. Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. Penicillin was one of the first antibiotics invented and also one of the most widely used worldwide.
— 1942. Enrico Fermi successfully tests the first atomic battery, which is considered the first nuclear reaction.
— 1946. American Dr. Percy Spencer who realized that the effect of microwaves could cook food without the heat being noticeable around him.
— 1950. American Ralph Scheider invents the credit card called Diner’s Club.
— 1957. Sputnik I, in orbit, inaugurates the space age.

— 1958. Engineer Jack St. Clair Kilby, just months after being hired by Texas Instruments, creates the first microchip or integrated circuit.
— 1973. Martin Cooper developed the first mobile phone called the Dyna-Trac while working at Motorola.
— 1975. Art Fry, who worked at 3M, invented the famous post it.
— 1980 Tim Berners-Lee is known as the father of the Internet, inventor of the web as we know it today. See How the Internet Works.

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— man of invention
— invention of the telephone
— invention of a plot
— make a welcome invention
— use the invention
— put smb’s invention into practice
— back an invention financially
— find the invention useful
— promote inventions
— patent an invention
— invention created a sensation

2) выдумка, вымысел, домысел, измышление

His story was all invention. — Вся его история — вымысел.

This is pure invention. — Это чистейший вымысел.

He told me a story of his own invention. — Он рассказал мне выдуманную им самим историю.

He’s known for his inventions of falsehood. — Он известен своими измышлениями.

Necessity is the mother of invention. — ◊ Нужда всему научит. /Голь на выдумки хитра

— invention of the sensational press

— newspapers full of inventions

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Англо-русский юридический словарь > invention
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invention

[ɪnˈvenʃən]

employee’s invention служебное изобретение invention выдумка, измышление invention изобретение invention открытие patentable invention патентоспособное изобретение patented invention запатентованное изобретение work an invention внедрять изобретение work an invention использовать изобретение work an invention реализовать изобретение

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invention

1. n изобретение, создание

2. n выдумка, измышление, вымысел

3. n изобретательность; выдумка

4. n муз. инвенция

Синонимический ряд:

1. brainchild (noun) brainchild; brain-child; coinage; contraption; contrivance; creative imagination; design; device; discovery; innovation

2. fabrication (noun) creation; creativeness; fabrication; fantasy; fiction; figment; hallucination; illusion; imagination; make-believe; myth; yarn

3. ingenuity (noun) creativity; ingenuity; inventiveness; originality

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invention

[ınʹvenʃ(ə)n]

1. 1) изобретение, создание

2) изобретение

2. выдумка, измышление, вымысел

the report was an invention of the sensational newspapers — сообщение было сфабриковано газетами, гоняющимися за сенсациями

3. изобретательность; выдумка

a poet without invention — поэт, лишённый фантазии

Invention of the Cross — обретение честнаго креста

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invention

изобретение ; ? disclosure of invention ; ? model law of invention ; ? non-obviousness of an invention ; ? patent of invention ;

Англо-Русский словарь финансовых терминов > invention
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invention

1) изобретение, открытие

2) измышление, вымысел

Англо-русский словарь по экономике и финансам > invention
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invention

[ɪn’venʃ(ə)n]

сущ.

to market / promote an invention — продвигать изобретение

to patent / register an invention — запатентовывать изобретение

Syn:

2) изобретательность, находчивость

Syn:

3)

а) выдумка, домысел, измышление

Syn:

Англо-русский современный словарь > invention
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invention

n

выдумка, вымысел, измышление

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invention

изобретение; выдумка; изобретательность

♦ backward invention возобновление выпуска товара в его ранее существовавших формах (часто при выходе за рубеж)

♦ forward invention создание совершенно нового, ранее не существовавшего товара

Англо-русский словарь по рекламе > invention

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INVENTION — L’invention est l’acte de produire par ses propres moyens un élément, un objet ou un processus original; plus généralement, de produire ou de créer en utilisant son imagination: inventer une machine, inventer une histoire. Le terme a aussi un… … Encyclopédie Universelle
invention — Invention. s. f. v. Qualité, faculté, disposition de l esprit à inventer. Ce Poëte n a point d invention. il a l invention belle, heureuse. cet artisan est homme d invention, est plein d invention. Il se prend aussi pour l action d inventer, &… … Dictionnaire de l’Académie française
Invention — In*ven tion, n. [L. inventio: cf. F. invention. See {Invent}.] [1913 Webster] 1. 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
invention — in‧ven‧tion [ɪnˈvenʆn] noun 1. [countable] a new product that was not available before: • Do you realise that the paint roller is a Canadian invention? • There were displays of new inventions in the exhibition halls. 2. [uncountable] when… … Financial and business terms
invention — in·ven·tion n: a device, process, or discovery under U.S. patent law that is new and useful, that reflects extraordinary creative ability or skill, and that makes a distinct and recognized contribution to and advancement of science; also: the act … Law dictionary
invention — Invention, Constitutio, Machinatio, Inuentio, Inuentus, huius inuentus, Excogitatio. Invention ou allegation qu on fait par malice plus que par bonne foy, Calumnia. Inventions et tromperies pour venir à la fin de ses attaintes, Machinae. C est… … Thresor de la langue françoyse
invention — (n.) c.1400, devised method of organization, from O.Fr. invencion (13c.) and directly from L. inventionem (nom. inventio) faculty of invention; a finding, discovery, noun of action from pp. stem of invenire devise, discover, find, from in in, on… … Etymology dictionary
invention — [n1] creation, creativeness apparatus, black box*, brainchild*, coinage, concoction, contraption, contrivance, creativity, design, development, device, discovery, doodad*, gadget, genius, gimmick, gizmo*, imagination, ingenuity, innovation,… … New thesaurus
Invention — (v. lat.), 1) das Finden, Auffinden; so Inventio sanctae crucis, Kreuzerfindung; 2) Erfindung; 3) Kunstgriff. Daher Inventiös, erfinderisch … Pierer’s Universal-Lexikon
Invention — (lat., franz.), Erfindung, Kunstgriff; bei Seb. Bach Bezeichnung für kleine, zwei und dreistimmige Klavierstücke im imitatorischen Stil; inventiös, erfinderisch, sinnreich … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Invention — (lat.), Erfindung; kurze Instrumentalsätze. Inventiös, erfinderisch, erfindungsreich, sinnreich … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

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изобретение, выдумка, изобретательность, изобретательство, измышление, инвенция

существительное ↓

- изобретение, создание

the invention of the telephone — изобретение телефона

- изобретение

to market / promote an invention — продвигать изобретение
joint invention — коллективное изобретение
to ascertain an invention — выявить изобретение
service invention — служебное изобретение
home invention — отечественное изобретение
the telephone is a useful invention — телефон — полезное изобретение

- выдумка, измышление, вымысел

his story is pure invention — его рассказ — сплошной вымысел
the report was an invention of the sensational newspapers — сообщение было сфабриковано газетами, гоняющимися за сенсациями
the invention of a false story — измышление лживой истории

- изобретательность; выдумка

a poet without invention — поэт, лишённый фантазии

- муз. инвенция

Invention of the Cross — рел. обретение честнаго креста

прилагательное

- изобретательский

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necessity is the mother of invention — посл. ≅ голь на выдумки хитра

Примеры с переводом

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Нужда — мать изобретательности.

His new invention was put to use.

Его новое изобретение было внедрено в практику.

It was incredible that nobody paid attention to the new invention.

Немыслимо, что никто не обратил внимания на новое изобретение.

Necessity is the mother of invention. посл.

Голь на выдумки хитра.

Government has certain rights in the invention.

Государство владеет определенными правами на изобретение.

This invention will make you a millionaire.

Это изобретение сделает тебя миллионером.

His explanation was pure invention.

Его объяснение было чистейшей выдумкой.

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Примеры, ожидающие перевода

He is developing a prototype for his invention.

Her invention has found its way into the shops.

The invention of the airplane revolutionized travel.

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Возможные однокоренные слова

invent — изобретать, придумывать, выдумывать, сочинять, вымышлять, фабриковать
inventor — изобретатель, выдумщик, фантазер
invented — изобретенный
inventful — изобретательный

Формы слова

noun
ед. ч.(singular): invention
мн. ч.(plural): inventions

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