To design a new process or mechanism. / To create something fictional for a particular purpose. / (obsolete) To come upon; to find; to discover.

Something invented. / The act of inventing. / The capacity to invent. / (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.

Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.

fictional, made up, imaginary.

simple past tense and past participle of invent

In an inventive manner.

The quality of being inventive; the faculty of inventing.

plural of invention

present participle of invent

One who invents; an inventor.