Innovation

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Innovation \In`no*va"tion\, n. [L. innovatio; cf. F.
     innovation.]
     1. The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in
        customs, rites, commercial products, etc. --Dryden.
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     2. A change effected by innovating; a change in customs;
        something new, and contrary to established customs,
        manners, or rites. --Bacon.
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              The love of things ancient doth argue stayedness,
              but levity and lack of experience maketh apt unto
              innovations.                          --Hooker.
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     3. (Bot.) A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced
        addition to the stems of many mosses.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  innovation
       n 1: a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study
            and experimentation [syn: {invention}]
       2: the creation of something in the mind [syn: {invention}, {excogitation},
           {conception}, {design}]
       3: the act of starting something for the first time;
          introducing something new; "she looked forward to her
          initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new
          scientific society"; "he regards the fork as a modern
          introduction" [syn: {initiation}, {founding}, {foundation},
           {institution}, {origination}, {creation}, {introduction},
           {instauration}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "innovation":
     advance guard, alteration, archetype, authenticity, avant-garde,
     breakthrough, coinage, creativeness, creativity, deviation,
     discovery, freshness, introduction, invention, inventiveness,
     latest fad, latest fashion, latest wrinkle, leap, model,
     modernization, mutation, neologism, new departure, new look,
     new phase, newfangled device, newness, nonimitation, novelty,
     original, originality, pattern, permutation, pilot model,
     prototype, sport, the in thing, the last word, the latest thing,
     uniqueness, vanguard, vicissitude, wrinkle
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INNOVATION, Scotch law. The exchange of one obligation for another, so that 
  the second shall come in the place of the first. Bell's Scotch Law Dict. h. 
  t. The same as Novation. (q. v.)