transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnvenʃ(ə)n ]
( inventions)
1.
An invention is a machine, device, or system that has been invented by someone.
The spinning wheel was a Chinese invention.
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2.
Invention is the act of inventing something that has never been made or used before.
...the invention of the telephone.
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3.
If you refer to someone’s account of something as an invention , you think that it is untrue and that they have made it up.
The story was certainly a favourite one, but it was undoubtedly pure invention.
= fabrication
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4.
Invention is the ability to invent things or to have clever and original ideas.
...his great powers of invention.
= creativity
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