Meaning

• Something invented.

  "I'm afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper's invention."

• The act of inventing.

  "The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages."

• The capacity to invent.

  "It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it."

• 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."

• The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

  "That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth."