invention

Etymology
From, , from either directly or via , from , from  +. . Equivalent to.

Displaced native.

Noun

 * 1) Something invented.
 * (here signifying a process or mechanism not previously devised)
 * (here signifying a fiction created for a particular purpose)
 * 1) * 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
 * Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long distance at half past six. Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention.
 * 1) The act of inventing.
 * 2) The capacity to invent.
 * 3)  A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
 * 4) * 1880, (editor and entry author), A Dictionary of Music and Musicians II, : Macmillan & Co., page 15, Invention :
 * INVENTION. A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces — 15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts — each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.
 * 1)  The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
 * 1)  A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
 * 2) * 1880, (editor and entry author), A Dictionary of Music and Musicians II, : Macmillan & Co., page 15, Invention :
 * INVENTION. A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces — 15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts — each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.
 * 1)  The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
 * 1)  The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: uitvinding
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: اِخْتِرَاع
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: invención, inventu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: вынахо́дства
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: တီထွင်မှု
 * Catalan: ,
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: opfindelse
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: leiutis
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, invento
 * Georgian: გამოგონებისა
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Erfindig
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εὕρημα
 * Gujarati:
 * Hebrew: הַמְצָאָה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: uppfinning
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: aireagán
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ប្រឌិត, ការប្រឌិត,
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: izgudrojums
 * Lithuanian: išradimas
 * Luxembourgish: Erfindung
 * Macedonian: пронајдок, изум
 * Maltese: invenzjoni
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: oppfinnelse
 * Old English: orþanc
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: изум
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: vynález
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: imbensiyon
 * Tajik: ихтироъ
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: สิ่งประดิษฐ์
 * Tibetan: གསར་བཟོ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: ви́нахід
 * Urdu: اِیجاد, اِیجادات
 * Uyghur: كەشپ, كەشپىيات
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: (發明),  (創制)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:


 * Asturian: invención
 * Bulgarian:, изобретяване
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: გამოგონება
 * German: Erfinden
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εὕρεσις
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: fionnachtain
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: izgudrošana
 * Old English: orþanc
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian: გამომგონებლობა
 * German:
 * Irish: aireag
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:, inventividade
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: uppfinningsförmåga,


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: inventio
 * German: Invention
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: inventione,
 * Japanese: インベンション
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: інве́нція


 * Dutch:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Romanian:
 * Slovene:
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu:
 * Volapük: ,

Etymology
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