innovation   (Sound)

The noun innovation has 3 senses

• invention, innovation -- (a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation)


• invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design -- (the creation of something in the mind)


• initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration -- (the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society")