Usually means: Creation of new, useful things.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word invention:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. invention: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. invention: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. invention: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. invention: Collins English Dictionary
  5. invention: Vocabulary.com
  6. Invention, invention: Wordnik
  7. invention: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. invention: Wiktionary
  9. invention: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. invention: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. invention: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. invention: Dictionary.com
  13. invention: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. invention: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Invention (album), Invention (disambiguation), Invention (musical composition), Invention: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Invention: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. invention: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. invention: Rhymezone
  19. invention, invention (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. invention: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. invention: Free Dictionary
  22. invention: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. invention: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. invention: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Invention (device or process), invention: Legal dictionary
  5. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Invention (device or process), invention: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. invention: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. invention: Anthropological Terms
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something invented.
noun:  The act of inventing.
noun:  The capacity to invent.
noun:  (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
noun:  (archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

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