innovation

IPA: ɪnʌvˈeɪʃʌn

The act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.
A change effected by innovating; a change in customs
Something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites.
A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.

Examples of "innovation" in Sentences

As painful as it may be, investing in innovation is what will get the pie growing again.
The only value they find in innovation is their ability to steal it, exploit it and call it their own.
"When people use the word innovation they are often referring to the 1.5ghz, the 4.4in display, megapixels," he says.
The term innovation may refer to both radical and incremental changes in thinking, in things, in processes or in services.
And there are few things less efficient than trial and error; innovation, or the activity that results in innovation, is inherently inefficient.
Critics and fans are used to trawling for innovation or novelty - in the case of Black Sabbath, though, their genuine sonic innovation was only half the story.
The "new reformers" have appropriated the term "innovation" as a descriptor for policy proposals and practices they advocate, and as an antonym for almost anything else.
II. ii.346 (217,9) I think, their inhibition comes by the means of the late innovation] I fancy this is transposed: Hamlet enquires not about an _inhibition_, but an _innovation_; the answer therefore probably was,
What most people are really talking about when they use the term innovation is more like what industrial historian Phil Scranton discusses as a variation, that is, "the disciplined change of an artifact's features or components, without affecting its core functions or capabilities" or a novelty that "references the creation of new artifacts within the domain of the known."