Definition of: invention

(in·ven′shən) noun
1. The act or process of inventing.
2. That which is invented: a useful invention.
3. Skill or ingenuity in contriving.
4. Mental fabrication or concoction.
5. In literature or, art, creation by the exercise of imaginative powers: poetic invention.
6. In rhetoric, the finding out or selection of topics to be treated, or arguments to be used.
7. Archaic A finding; discovery.
8. Law a The process of devising and producing by independent investigation and experiment something not previously known or existing. b The article, device, or composition thus created. See synonyms under ARTIFICE, FICTION, INGENUITY, PROJECT. [<OF invencion]