[ UK /ɪnvˈɛnʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈvɛnʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
  2. the creation of something in the mind
  3. the act of inventing
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How To Use invention In A Sentence

  • I'm afraid he is guilty of a good deal of invention.
  • The invention concerns a cable drum having a non-cylindrical profile of its outer surface and the use of this cable drum in a window regulator system, particularly in a vehicle.
  • Thereby, one-dimensional or multidimensional attribute of call events is displayed simultaneously through the invention.
  • This lapidation has sometimes been doubted, and treated as an invention of Rousseau's morbid suspicion. Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
  • Masterful with machinery, he patented several mechanical inventions which had varying degrees of viability.
  • The World Is Flat" & Co. were cyclones of breeziness, mixing metaphors by the dozens and whipping up slang and clichés and jokey catchphrases of the author's own invention. Shovel-Ready Shibboleths
  • With poor mineral resources, its prospects as an independent, viable country were secured by the invention of refrigeration.
  • Its choreography is dense with invention, its dancers project a fine fierce physicality and an alert, emotional presence. Stephen Petronio Company – review
  • The invention of photography was also quickly seized on as proof of the supernatural world. Times, Sunday Times
  • This we would call a palpable lie were not so much of _The Bible in Spain_ sheer invention. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends
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