Invention
In`ven´tion
INVENTION. A contrivance; a discovery. It is in this sense this word is used
in the patent laws of the United States. 17 Pet. 228; S. C. 1 How. U. S.
202. It signifies not something which has been found ready made, but
something which, in consequence of art or accident, has been formed; for the
invention must relate to some new or useful art, machine, manufacture, or
composition of matter, not before known or used by others. Act of July 4,
1836, 4 Sharsw. continuation of Story's L. U.S. 2506; 1 Mason, R. 302; 4
Wash. C. C. R. 9. Vide Patent. By invention, the civilians understand the
finding of some things which had not been lost; they must either have
abandoned, or they must have never belonged to any one, as a pearl found on
the sea shore. Lec. Elem Sec. 350.
Nachtmusik,
absolute music,
adaptation,
air varie,
aleatory,
aleatory music,
apparition,
arrangement,
artifact,
authorship,
beginning,
brainchild,
breakthrough,
bringing to light,
bubble,
canard,
casual discovery,
catching,
chamber music,
chamber orchestra,
chance discovery,
child,
chimera,
coinage,
composition,
conception,
concoction,
contraption,
contrivance,
contriving,
creation,
creative effort,
creativeness,
creativity,
creature,
crowning achievement,
delirium,
descant,
detection,
determination,
determining,
development,
device,
devising,
disclosure,
discovery,
distillation,
distinguishment,
effect,
eidolon,
electronic music,
end product,
espial,
essence,
etude,
excavation,
exercise,
exhumation,
exposure,
extract,
extravaganza,
fable,
fabrication,
fake,
falsehood,
falsification,
fancy,
fantasque,
fantasy,
fecundity,
fertile mind,
fertility,
fib,
fiction,
figment,
find,
finding,
finding out,
forgery,
fruit,
gadget,
generation,
gizmo,
hallucination,
handiwork,
harmonization,
hatching,
idle fancy,
illusion,
imagery,
imagination,
imagining,
improvisation,
incidental music,
ingenuity,
innovation,
instrumental music,
insubstantial image,
introduction,
inventiveness,
issue,
leap,
lie,
locating,
location,
lucky strike,
maggot,
make-believe,
making do,
manufacture,
masterpiece,
masterwork,
mintage,
myth,
neologism,
new mintage,
new phase,
nocturne,
novelty,
offspring,
opera,
opus,
opuscule,
orchestration,
original,
originality,
origination,
outcome,
outgrowth,
phantasm,
phantom,
piece,
pregnant imagination,
prevarication,
product,
production,
productivity,
program music,
prolificacy,
recognition,
rediscovery,
result,
revelation,
ricercar,
romance,
score,
serendipity,
sham,
sick fancy,
sonata,
sonatina,
spotting,
story,
strike,
string orchestra,
string quartet,
study,
tale,
tall story,
tall tale,
teeming imagination,
theme and variations,
thick-coming fancies,
treasure trove,
trio,
trip,
trouvaille,
trove,
uncovering,
unearthing,
vapor,
variation,
vision,
whim,
whimsy,
wildest dreams,
work,
yarn