inventions

Noun

invention (countable and uncountable, plural inventions)

1. Something invented.
   • My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time.
2. The act of inventing.
   • The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.
3. The capacity to invent.
   • It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.
4. A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
   • I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.
5. (archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
   • That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth.