English-Estonian translations for invention

• leiutis
  See ei olnud komisjoni leiutis. It was not an invention of the Commission.
  Härra Schulz, teil on täiesti õigus: Belgia oli Suurbritannia leiutis ja Suurbritannia viga. Mr Schulz, you are quite right that Belgium was a British invention, and a British mistake.
  Ometi on Euroopa suurim leiutis 2500 aastat tagasi geeniuse väljamõeldud loogiline mõte: mõistus! Yet Europe's greatest invention, the product of its genius 2 500 years ago, was logical thought: reason!

Definition of invention

• Something invented
• The act of inventing
• The capacity to invent
• A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s ''Two-'and ''Three-part Inventions''
• The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery

Examples

• My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time
• Im afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeepers invention
• The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages
• It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it
• I particularly like the inventions in C-minor
• That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth

Related words

• inventio
• reinvention
• necessity is the mother of invention