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invention

noun A2
MEANING IN ENGLISH

a new process, machine, or device created through study and experimentation

In context

01

The invention of the printing press transformed human education.

02

Electric lighting was a revolutionary invention of the nineteenth century.

Synonyms

creation,innovation,discovery

Antonyms

destruction,imitation,copy

Collocations

patent an invention,new invention,brilliant invention

Sources

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