Invention

French Meaning

invention

fabrication

English Meaning

  1. The act or process of inventing: used a technique of her own invention.
  2. A new device, method, or process developed from study and experimentation: the phonograph, an invention attributed to Thomas Edison.
  3. A mental fabrication, especially a falsehood.
  4. Skill in inventing; inventiveness: "the invention and sweep of the staging” ( John Simon).
  5. Music A short composition developing a single theme contrapuntally.
  6. A discovery; a finding.