contrivance   (Sound)

The noun contrivance has 6 senses

• appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget -- (a device or control that is very useful for a particular job)


• contrivance -- (the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem")


• contrivance, stratagem, dodge -- (an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track")


• contrivance -- (an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable")


• lash-up, contrivance -- (any improvised arrangement for temporary use)


• devisal, contrivance -- (the act of devising something)