— innovator , n. — innovatory , adj.
/in"euh vayt'/ , v. , innovated, innovating .
v.i.
1. to introduce something new; make changes in anything established.
v.t.
2. to introduce (something new) for or as if for the first time: to innovate a computer operating system.
3. Archaic. to alter.
[ 1540-50; innovatus ptp. of innovare to renew, alter, equiv. to in- IN- 2 + novatus ( nova ( re ) to renew, v. deriv. of novus NEW + -tus ptp. suffix) ]