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noun
- Something invented.
- My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time.
- I'm afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper's invention.
- The capacity to invent.
- It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.
- (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach"s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
- I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.
Translations: - Dutch: uitvinding
- French: invention
- German: Erfindung
- Italian: invenzione
- Spanish: invención
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