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innovation (iou)



innovation noun. LME.
[Latin innovatio(n-), formed as INNOVATE: see -ATION.]
The action of innovating; the introduction of a new thing; the alteration of something established; spec. (a) (political) revolution; (b) Scots Law. = NOVATION 2; (c) Commerce the introduction of a new product on to the market. LME.
Dumfries & Galloway Standard The Government place considerable emphasis on promoting innovation and enterprise.
A result or product of innovating; a thing newly introduced; a change made in something; a new practice, method, etc.; spec. (a) a (political) revolution; (b) Commerce a product newly introduced on to the market. LME.
Robert Johnson Neither doth he willingly arme them for feare of sedition and innovations. L. M. Montgomery They've never had a female teacher..before and she thinks it is a dangerous innovation. E. M. Rogers It matters little whether or not an innovation has..advantage over the idea it is replacing.
Botany. A newly formed shoot which has not completed its growth; spec. (in a moss) a shoot formed at or near the apex of the thallus, the older parts dying off behind. M19.
innovational adjective E19.
innovationist noun (rare) a person who favours innovations E19.