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patent

English

  1. 🔊 (of a bodily tube or passageway) open
    “patent ductus arteriosus”
  2. 🔊 clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
    “the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields”
  3. 🔊 a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
  4. 🔊 an official document granting a right or privilege
  5. 🔊 make open to sight or notice
    “His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him”
  6. 🔊 obtain a patent for
    “Should I patent this invention?”
  7. 🔊 grant rights to

Spanish

  1. 🔊 patente patent
  2. 🔊 patentar to patent

Similar words

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