preinvention

adj

Etymology

From pre- + invention.

  1. derived from inveniō
  2. derived from invencion
  3. derived from inventiō
  4. inherited from invencion
  5. prefixed as preinvention — “pre + invention

Definitions

  1. Before the invention of something

    Before the invention of something; applied to legal agreements in which an employee agrees to assign to his/her employer the rights to any invention he/she later creates while employed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for preinvention. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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