text: in·ven·tion:\nn.\n1.The act or process of inventing: used a technique of her own invention.\n2.A new device, method, or process developed from study and experimentation: the phonograph, an invention attributed to Thomas Edison.\n3.A mental fabrication, especially a falsehood.\n4.Skill in inventing; inventiveness: “the invention and sweep of the staging” (John Simon).\n5.Music. A short composition developing a single theme contrapuntally.\n6.A discovery; a finding.