vt to come or light upon; to meet; to find.
2. invent ·vt to frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge;
in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.
3. invent ·vt to discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time;
applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.