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How to pronounce invention in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms innovation
Type of creation
Type Words
Synonyms conception, design, excogitation, innovation
Type of creativeness, creativity, creative thinking
Has types contrivance, concoction
Derivation invent
Type Words
Type of creating by mental acts
Has types coinage, contrivance, devisal, neologism, neology
Derivation invent

Examples of invention

invention
On his 100th birthday they asked him what he thought was the greatest invention.
From the denverpost.com
The slickster lawyer is the invention of best-selling novelist Michael Connelly.
From the post-gazette.com
This is a brilliant new invention and its now being proven through its findings.
From the economist.com
She envisions applying the invention to organ tissue regeneration in the future.
From the sciencedaily.com
We see it like the industrial revolution or the invention of the printing press.
From the avc.com
Research had been going on for many years as to the invention of the toothbrush.
From the al.com
It is this figure, Lyons writes, who informed the West's re-invention of itself.
From the latimes.com
Once completed, the trio needed money to take their invention to the East Coast.
From the ocregister.com
Coach Billy Gillispie noted how necessity is the mother of Kentucky's invention.
From the kentucky.com
More examples
  • The creation of something in the mind
  • A creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
  • The act of inventing
  • An invention is a new composition, device, or process. An invention may be derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived in which case it may be a radical breakthrough. ...
  • This is a listing of official releases by Phil Keaggy, an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist.
  • This is a list of merit badges formerly offered by the Boy Scouts of America. In some cases, the entire subject has been dropped from the merit badge roster. In others, the merit badge's name has been changed, with or without significant revision to the badge's requirements.
  • In music, an invention is a short composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with two-part counterpoint. (Compositions in the same style as an invention but using three-part counterpoint are known as sinfonias. ...
  • Conception of a new, useful, nonobvious idea followed by reduction to practice and communicated to a non-inventor.
  • A unique object produced through the process of imagination and experience.