The process of creating or designing something entirely new that didn't exist before.
From Latin 'invenire' (to come upon, find, create), combining 'in-' (in) and 'venire' (to come). The word shifted in meaning from 'discovering' to 'creating' by the Middle Ages.
Here's a mind-bender: you can't really 'invent' anything truly new because every invention combines existing ideas—even electricity, radio, and flight were combinations of older discoveries, so inventors are really just remixing nature in clever ways!
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