invention: meaning and definitions

The act or process of inventing: used a technique of her own invention.

A new device, method, or process developed from study and experimentation: the phonograph, an invention attributed to Thomas Edison.

A mental fabrication, especially a falsehood.

Skill in inventing; inventiveness: "the invention and sweep of the staging” ( John Simon).

Music A short composition developing a single theme contrapuntally.

A discovery; a finding.