invention

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English invencion, invencioun, from Latin inventiō either directly or via Middle French invencion, from Latin invenīre (“to discover, find, invent”), from in- (“in-: in, into”) + venīre (“to come”). Doublet of inventio. By surface analysis, invent +‎ -ion. Displaced native Old English orþanc. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/ === Noun === invention (countable and uncountable, plural inventions) Something invented. (here signifying a process or mechanism not previously devised) (here signifying a fiction created for a particular purpose) 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. The act of inventing. The capacity to invent. (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions. 1880, George Grove (editor and entry author), A Dictionary of Music and Musicians II, London: 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. (archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery. ==== Synonyms ==== discovery ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== References ==== John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “invention”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin inventiōnem, from invenio. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛ̃.vɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ === Noun === invention f (plural inventions) invention ==== Derived terms ==== la nécessité est la mère de l'invention ==== Related terms ==== inventer inventeur === Further reading === “invention”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012