someone who is the first to think of or make something
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用作名詞(n.)
He is no more an inventor than an engineer. 他是工程師，不是發明家。
Edison was famous as a great inventor. 愛迪生以一位偉大的發明家而著名。
With modern Intellectual mechanics, only the IPR acquired by the first inventor of the most advanced technology was admitted in the society. 在現代知識產權制度下，社會只承認和授予那個最早最先進技術發明創造者的知識產權，這個知識產權屬于最先發明這項新技術的第一人。