patent
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈpeɪtənt/, /ˈpætənt/
- (America) enPR: pătʹənt, IPA: /ˈpætənt/, [pʰæ̝ʔn̩t] or enPR: pātʹənt, IPA: /ˈpeɪtənt/, [pʰe̞ɪʔn̩t]
patent (plural patents)
- A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent.
- A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent.
- License; formal permission.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV, sc. 1:
- If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent
- to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes near
- nobody.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV, sc. 1:
- Patent leather: a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for shoes and accessories.
patent (patents, present participle patenting; past and past participle patented)
- To successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent.
- French: breveter, faire breveter
- German: patentieren, patentieren lassen
- Portuguese: patentear
- Russian: патентова́ть
- Spanish: patentar
patent
- (biology) Open, unobstructed, expanded.
- That is a patent ductus arteriosus.
- Explicit and obvious.
- Those claims are patent nonsense.
- (of flour) That is fine, and consists mostly of the inner part of the endosperm.
- Open; unconcealed; conspicuous.
- He had received instructions, both patent and secret.
- Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege.
- letters patent
- Protected by a legal patent.
- a patent right; patent medicines
- Madder […] in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity.
- (explicit) express, monosemous, unambiguous; see also Thesaurus:explicit or Thesaurus:obvious
- (open) overt
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