inventornoun [ C ]
uk/ɪnˈven.tər/us/ɪnˈven.t̬ɚ/B2 someone who has invented something or whose job is to invent things
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Inventing, designing and innovation
- architect
- artificer
- authoring
- blueprint
- cad
- coin
- computer-aided design
- engineer
- ergonomics
- father
- founding father
- guinea pig
- innovate
- mint
- pioneer
- research
- research and development
- robotics
- tech
- technical
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Examples from literature
- As a result, the weapons inventors through time had to become more and more imaginative.
- Inventors started to use science and technology to invent new weapons.
- Others have new ideas in science and are inventors.
- Suddenly, inventors had something very powerful to use in their designs.