- invention, innovation - a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
--1 is a kind of creation
Derived form: verb innovate1 - invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design - the creation of something in the mind
--2 is a kind of creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
--2 has particulars: concoction; contrivance - initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration - the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society"; "he regards the fork as a modern introduction"
--3 is a kind of beginning, start, commencement
--3 has particulars: authorship, paternityDerived form: verb innovate1