Noun
The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.
That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention.
Thought; idea.
A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNecessity... the mother of invention. Plato
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. Dave Barry
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention. Margaret Mead
Necessity is the mother of invention. English Proverb
Partnership is an invention of the devil. Russian Proverb
Haste is the invention of the devil. Arabic Proverb