Collocations withinvention
These are words often used in combination withinvention.
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claimed invention
Novelty of the claimed invention is destroyed if there is a disclosure of an embodiment which falls within the claim.
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greatest invention
The petrol engine is the greatest invention since the wheel.
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independent invention
When these social and economic forces dictated, cultural innovations might be adopted through diffusion or (more rarely) independent invention.
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invention of photography
The invention of photography could facilitate a power over the criminal individual that was unimaginable before.
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invention of printing
Veltman (1991) points out that it was 80 years from the invention of printing before scientific text was printed systematically.
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patented invention
Section 2 demonstrates that a 19th-century patented invention in mechanical engineering and numerous 20th-century patented inventions can be similarly reinvented by genetic programming.!
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pure invention
Their tale is pure invention.
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recent invention
And above all, we study something called 'material culture', seemingly untroubled by the knowledge that the division between culture and nature which it implies is a relatively recent invention.
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technological invention
Science was to be fostered as leading to the improvement of man's lot on earth by facilitating technological invention.
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