If you create a new device or process, it's called an invention. Many futuristic inventions from science fiction have come true, though no one has successfully invented a time machine.
The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed;
Noun
the act of inventing
Noun
a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
Noun
the creation of something in the mind
n.
The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or
construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of
logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.
n.
That which is invented; an original contrivance or
construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that
falsehood was her own invention.
n.
Thought; idea.
n.
A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a
falsehood.
n.
The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or
ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
n.
The exercise of the imagination in selecting and
treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a
piece, or the method of presenting its parts.
Invention
As the search of it [truth] is the duty, so the invention will be the happiness of man.2.
We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished.3.
Filling their hearers With strange invention.5.
They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker.6.
The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed;
Usage Examples
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Architecture is invention.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
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Other Usage ExamplesIf this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing it's not a western invention.
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.
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