The invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century revolutionized the distribution of knowledge across Europe.
十五世纪印刷机的发明彻底改变了知识在欧洲的传播方式。
A student has gathered the following notes about an invention:
From a Rhetorical Synthesis question · Expression of Ideas
Historian Rosa Delgado argues that the invention of the mechanical clock was the primary technological cause of standardized work schedules in early factories.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
A profile of an inventor opens by describing her decades of failed prototypes in vivid detail, then spends its remaining sections explaining how those very failures directly informed the design choices behind her eventual successful invention.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “invention”?
A — Something that has been created, especially a device. “invention” means something that has been created, especially a device.
Which word means “something that has been created, especially a device”?
D — invention. “invention” means something that has been created, especially a device.
invention — something that has been created, especially a device. In Chinese: 发明.
invention is pronounced /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/.
The invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century revolutionized the distribution of knowledge across Europe. (十五世纪印刷机的发明彻底改变了知识在欧洲的传播方式。)
creation, device, innovation — all close in meaning to invention (something that has been created, especially a device).
Yes. invention is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.