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Another word for invention

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invention

n.

Ingenuity
inventiveness, imagination, creativity; see originality.
An original device
contrivance, contraption, design; see contrivance 2, device 1, discovery 2.

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Another word for invention

noun

The power or ability to invent:
creativeness, creativity, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness, originality. See ability, make
Something invented:
brainchild, contrivance, device. See machine, make
Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea:
creation, fantasy, fiction, figment, myth. See belief, real

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The invention of the damper-pedal in the pianoforte epitomizes the difference between polyphony and symphonic art, for it is the earliest device by which sounds are produced and prolonged in a way contrary to the spirit of "real" part-writing.
The invention of the railroad was a milestone in the history of transportation.
Briggs was greatly excited by Napier's invention and visited him at Merchiston in 1615, staying with him a whole month; he repeated his visit in 1616 and, as he states, "would have been glad to make him a third visit if it had pleased God to spare him so long."
Ztg., 1815, May, p. 309, the first announcement of the invention in a paragraph by Captain G.
Even when, on the invention of gunpowder and firearms, the bow had fallen into disuse as a weapon of war, the prohibition was continued.

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