inveigle
— Verb
– English
~ influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"
invent
— Verb
– English
~ come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
invent
— Verb
– English
~ concoct something artificial or untrue
invention
— Noun
– English
~ a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
invention
— Noun
– English
~ the creation of something in the mind
inventive
— Adjective
– English
~ (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics"
inventively
— Adverb
– English
~ in an inventive manner; "Picasso's liberated shapes and excitingly applied and inventively combined colours"
inventiveness
— Noun
– English
~ the power of creative imagination
inventor
— Noun
– English
~ someone who is the first to think of or make something
inventory
— Noun
– English
~ a collection of resources; "he dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer"
inventory
— Noun
– English
~ a detailed list of all the items in stock
inventory
— Noun
– English
~ the merchandise that a shop has on hand; "they carried a vast inventory of hardware"; "they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory"
inventory
— Noun
– English
~ (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods
inventory
— Noun
– English
~ making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand; "an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing"; "they held an inventory every month"
inventory control
— Noun
– English
~ supervision of the supply and storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply
inventory accounting
— Noun
– English
~ accounting that controls and evaluates inventory
inventory
— Verb
– English
~ make or include in an itemized record or report; "Inventory all books before the end of the year"
inventorying
— Noun
– English
~ making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand; "an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing"; "they held an inventory every month"
inverse cosine
— Noun
– English
~ the inverse function of the cosine; the angle that has a cosine equal to a given number