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pat⋅ent

  [pat-nt or, for 10, 12–15, peyt-; especially Brit. peyt-nt]
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–noun
1. the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
2. an invention or process protected by this right.
3. an official document conferring such a right; letters patent.
4. the instrument by which the government of the United States conveys the legal fee-simple title to public land.
5. patent leather.
–adjective patent (for 10, 12–15.)
6. protected by a patent; patented: a patent cooling device.
7. pertaining to, concerned with, or dealing with patents, esp. on inventions: a patent attorney; patent law.
8. conferred by a patent, as a right or privilege.
9. holding a patent, as a person.
10. readily open to notice or observation; evident; obvious: a patent breach of good manners.
11. made of patent leather: patent shoes.
12. lying open; not enclosed or shut in: a patent field.
13. Chiefly Botany. expanded or spreading.
14. open, as a doorway or a passage.
15. Phonetics. open, in various degrees, to the passage of the breath stream.
–verb (used with object)
16. to take out a patent on; obtain the exclusive rights to (an invention, process, etc.) by a patent.
17. to originate and establish as one's own.
18. Metallurgy. to heat and quench (wire) so as to prepare for cold-drawing.
19. to grant (public land) by a patent.
Origin:
1250–1300; (adj.) ME < L patent- (s. of patēns) open, orig. prp. of patēre to stand wide open; (n.) ME, short for letters patent, trans. of ML litterae patentēs open letters

Related forms:
pat⋅ent⋅a⋅ble, adjective
pat⋅ent⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
pat⋅ent⋅a⋅bly, adverb
pa⋅tent⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
10. clear, palpable, conspicuous, unconcealed. See apparent.

Antonyms:
10. dim, obscure, hidden.
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pat·ent   (pāt'nt)   
n.  

    1. A grant made by a government that confers upon the creator of an invention the sole right to make, use, and sell that invention for a set period of time.

    2. Letters patent.

    3. An invention protected by such a grant.

    4. A grant made by a government that confers on an individual fee-simple title to public lands.

    5. The official document of such a grant.

    6. The land so granted.

    1. A grant made by a government that confers on an individual fee-simple title to public lands.

    2. The official document of such a grant.

    3. The land so granted.

  3. An exclusive right or title.

adj.  

    1. Protected or conferred by a patent or letters patent: a patent right.

    2. Of, relating to, or dealing in patents: patent law.

    3. Not blocked; open.

    4. Spreading open; expanded.

  2. also (pāt'nt) Obvious; plain. See Synonyms at apparent.

  3. (pāt'nt) Biology

    1. Not blocked; open.

    2. Spreading open; expanded.

  4. Of, relating to, or being a nonprescription drug or other medical preparation that is often protected by a trademark.

  5. Of high quality. Used of flour.

  6. also (pāt'nt) Archaic Open to general inspection. Used especially of documents.

tr.v.   pat·ent·ed, pat·ent·ing, pat·ents

  1. To obtain a patent on or for (an invention, for example).

  2. To invent, originate, or be the proprietor of (an idea, for example).

  3. To grant a patent to or for.


[Middle English, document granting a right, short for (lettre) patent, open (letter), from Old French (lettre) patente, from Latin patēns, patent-, open, present participle of patēre, to be open; see petə- in Indo-European roots.]
pat'ent·a·bil'i·ty n., pat'ent·a·ble adj.
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Main Entry: pat·ent
Function: transitive verb
: to obtain or grant a right to (something) by a patent patented to the railroad>; specifically : to protect the rights to (an invention) by a patent patented>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: pa·tent
Pronunciation: 'pat-&nt, Brit usu 'pAt-
Function: noun
1 : protected by a trademark or a trade nameso as to establish proprietary rights analogous to those conveyed by a patent : PROPRIETARY <patentdrugs>
2Pronunciation: 'pAt-
: affording free passage : being open and unobstructed patent with no pathological discharge—Journal of the American Medical Association>
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patent pat·ent (pāt'nt)
n.

  1. A grant made by a government that confers upon the creator of an invention the sole right to make, use, and sell that invention for a set period of time.

  2. An invention protected by such a grant.

adj.

  1. Of, relating to, or being a nonprescription drug or other medical preparation that is often protected by a trademark.

  2. (pāt'nt) Not blocked; open.

  3. (pāt'nt ) Spreading open; expanded.

v. pat·ent·ed, pat·ent·ing, pat·ents

  1. To obtain a patent on or for something, such as an invention.

  2. To invent, originate, or be the proprietor of an idea.

  3. To grant a patent to somone or for something.

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