Definition of Inventions

1. Noun. (plural of invention) ¹

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Definition of Inventions

1. invention [n] - See also: invention

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inventions

invenit
invenom
invenomed
invenoming
invenoms
invent
invented
inventer
inventers
inventest
inventeth
inventful
inventible
inventing
invention
inventions (current term)
inventious
inventive
inventively
inventiveness
inventivenesses
inventor
inventorial
inventorially
inventoried
inventories
inventorize
inventorized
inventorizes
inventorizing

Literary usage of Inventions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Scl Am S 81: 383-4 Je 10 '16 inventions How Inventors Invent. F: Mills. 11 Illus World 25:241-3 Ap 46 List of epoch-making inventions by people of FK bane. ..."

2. Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature by William Fielding Ogburn (1922)
"That culture grows by means of inventions is of course universally recognized. ... It is quite customary to think of inventions as the achievement of native ..."

3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"As to Patent Rights for inventions. —A patent, according to the definition of Mr. Phillips, (5) is a grant by the state of the exclusive privilege of making ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Many inventions relate to subjects which can only be properly used by the Government, such as explosive shells, rams and submarine batteries to be attached ..."

5. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 by William Babcock Weeden (1890)
"The course of American mechanical engineering toward the minor inventions of England has always been in one direction. The English develop a machine or ..."

6. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"On the other hand, the Federal Trade Commission may have various ways of discovering inventions otherwise than by applications for patent, ..."

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