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/ˌɪnəvˈeɪʃən/ /ˌɪnoʊvˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Innovation n.

The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, commercial products, etc.

A change effected by innovating; a change in customs; something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites. "The love of things ancient doth argue stayedness, but levity and lack of experience maketh apt unto innovations."

(Bot.) A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.

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Etymology of 'Innovation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Innovation" Quotes from Famous Books

... these characters according to the decimal system, which is the prime element of their importance. Knowledge is not forthcoming as to just when or by whom such application was made. If this was an Arabic innovation, it was perhaps the most important one with which that nation is to be credited. Another mathematical improvement was the introduction into trigonometry of the sine—the half-chord of the double arc—instead of the chord of the arc itself which the Greek astronomers had employed. ...

— A History of Science, Volume 2(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

... the whole reign of Numa, there was neither war, nor sedition, nor innovation in the state, nor any envy or ill-will to his person, nor plot or conspiracy from views of ambition. Either fear of the gods that were thought to watch over him, or reverence for his virtue, or a divine felicity of fortune that in his days preserved ...

— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... all events, when theologians oppose scientific conclusions on religious grounds, and not simply from mental dulness or rigidity. And, in so far as it is religious feeling which thus prompts resistance to scientific innovation, it may be said, with some appearance of truth, that there is a ...

— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske

... dictionary of such unimpassioned vocables as "codification" and "international," Bentham would have been glad to purify the language by purging it of those "affections of the soul" wherein Burke had found its highest glory. Yet in censuring the ordinary political usage of such a word as "innovation," it was hardly prejudice in general that he attacked, but the particular and deep-seated prejudice against novelty. The surprising vivacity of many of his own figures,—although he had the courage of his convictions, and laboured, ...

— Style • Walter Raleigh

... there was time to look ahead, time to think, time to weigh what we had done and what we wanted to do. So that week The Wand came out with ideas for cooperative action that were an innovation in the development of new lands, a banded strength for the homesteader's protection. It seemed logical and simple and inevitable to me then—as it does now. "Banded together as friends"—the Indian meaning ...

— Land of the Burnt Thigh • Edith Eudora Kohl

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