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  "pronunciations": {
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      "\u02cc\u026an\u02c8v\u025bn\u0283\u0259n"
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      "From Middle English invencion, invencioun, from Latin inventi\u014d either directly or via Middle French invencion, from Latin inven\u012bre (\u201cto discover, find, invent\u201d), from in- (\u201cin-: in, into\u201d) + ven\u012bre (\u201cto come\u201d). Equivalent to invent + -ion.\nDisplaced native Old English or\u00feanc."
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            "mean": "Something invented.\nMy new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time.(here signifying a process or mechanism not previously devised)\nI'm afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper's invention.(here signifying a fiction created for a particular purpose)\n1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:\nWarren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long distance at half past six.   Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention.\n2013 October 5,  \u201cThe widening gyre\u201d, in  The Economist, volume 409, number 8856:British inventions have done more to influence the shape of the modern world than those of any other country. Many\u2014football, the steam engine and Worcestershire sauce, to take a random selection\u2014have spread pleasure, goodwill and prosperity. Others\u2014the Maxim gun, the Shrapnel shell and jellied eels\u2014have not."
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            "mean": "The act of inventing.\nThe invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.\n2013 September-October,  Henry Petroski,  \u201cThe Evolution of Eyeglasses\u201d, in  American Scientist:Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,  ."
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            "mean": "The capacity to invent.\nIt took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it."
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            "mean": "(music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach\u2019s Two- and Three-part Inventions.\nI particularly like the inventions in C-minor.\n1880, George Grove (editor and entry author), A Dictionary of Music and Musicians II, London: Macmillan & Co., page 15, Invention:\nINVENTION.\u2003A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces\u200a\u2014\u200a15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts\u200a\u2014\u200aeach developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day."
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            "mean": "(archaic) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.\nThat judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth."
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