noun. The act or process of inventing.

noun. A new device, method, or process developed from study and experimentation.

noun. A mental fabrication, especially a falsehood.

noun. Skill in inventing; inventiveness.

noun. A short composition developing a single theme contrapuntally.

noun. A discovery; a finding.

noun. A finding. [Obsolete, or archaic, as in the phrase Invention of the Cross. See cross.]

noun. The act or process of finding out how to make something previously unknown, or how to do something in a new way; original contrivance; creation by a new use of means: as, the invention of printing; the invention of the steamengine, or of an improved steam-engine.

noun. That which is invented; something previously unknown, or some new modification of an existing thing, produced by an original use of means; an original contrivance or device. When used absolutely, it generally denotes a new mechanical device, or a new process in one of the useful arts.

noun. Specifically, in music, a short piece in which a single thought is worked out, usually contrapuntally, but with the comparative simplicity of an impromptu or of a study.

noun. The act of producing by the exercise of the imagination; mental fabrication or creation: as, the invention of plots or of excuses.

noun. The faculty or power of inventing; skill or ingenuity in original contrivance; the gift of finding out or producing new forms, methods, processes, effects, etc.; in art and lit., the exercise of imagination in production; the creative faculty.

noun. A coming in; arrival.

noun. The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed

noun. That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device

noun. Thought; idea.

noun. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.

noun. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new.

noun. The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts.

noun. a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena.

noun. Something invented.

noun. The act of inventing.

noun. The capacity to invent.

noun. A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.

noun. The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

noun. the creation of something in the mind

noun. a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

noun. the act of inventing

"The main "invention" is nothing more than a particular combination of these elements designed to speed up the breeding cycle for selected traits, in order to make the animals more commercially profitable."

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