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Meaning of 'invent' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Invent [ v. t.]
- To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
- To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.
- To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.

Meaning of 'invent' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . invent [ v]
Meaning (1):
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
Example in sentence:
  • excogitate a way to measure the speed of light

Nearby Words:

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