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To create something new. To discover a new process. To find out something new; to devise, contrive, and produce something not previously known or existing, by the exercise of independent investigation and experiment; particularly applied to machines, mechanical appliances, compositions, and patentable inventions of every sort. … [Read more...] about INVENT

The expenditure of time or money in something with the hope that ultimately a profit will be made. … [Read more...] about INVESTMENT

In the civil law. Finding ; one of the modes of acquiring title to property by occupancy. Helnecc. lib. 2, tit 1, … [Read more...] about INVENTIO

A financial institution which analyzes and purchases newly issued securities which it in turn sells to investors. … [Read more...] about INVESTMENT BANK

In patent law. The act or operation of finding out something new; the process of contriving and producing something not previously known or existing, by the exercise of independent investigation and experiment Also the article or contrivance or composition so invented. An "invention" differs from a "discovery." The former term is properly applicable to the contrivance and … [Read more...] about INVENTION