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Definition of Patent
1. Noun. A document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention.
2. Verb. Obtain a patent for. "Should I patent this invention?"
3. Adjective. (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage. "Patent ductus arteriosus"
4. Noun. An official document granting a right or privilege.
Generic synonyms: Instrument, Legal Document, Legal Instrument, Official Document
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
5. Verb. Grant rights to; grant a patent for.
6. Adjective. Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment. "In plain view"
Similar to: Obvious
Derivative terms: Apparency, Apparentness, Appear, Appear, Evidence, Patency, Plainness
7. Verb. Make open to sight or notice. "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him"
Definition of Patent
1. a. Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
2. n. A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.
3. v. t. To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
Definition of Patent
1. to obtain a patent (a government grant protecting the rights of an inventor) on [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Patent
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2. Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
3. Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines. "Madder . . . In King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity." (Mortimer)
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