Patent
Definition of Patent
Pat´ent Pronunciation: păt´ent or pāt´ent | a. | 1. | Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. | | 2. | Open to public perusal; - said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter. | | 3. | Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines. | | 4. | (Bot.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf. | | n. | 1. | A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party. | | 2. | The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent. | | v. t. | 1. | To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands. |
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