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in⋅ven⋅tor

[in-ven-ter]
–noun
a person who invents, esp. one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.
Also, in⋅vent⋅er.


Origin:
1500–10; < L; see invent, -tor
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in·vent   (ĭn-věnt')   
tr.v.   in·vent·ed, in·vent·ing, in·vents
  1. To produce or contrive (something previously unknown) by the use of ingenuity or imagination.

  2. To make up; fabricate: invent a likely excuse.


[Latin invenīre, invent-, to find : in-, on, upon; see in-2 + venīre, to come; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.]
in·vent'i·ble adj., in·ven'tor n.
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