device

device.

1. Patents. A mechanical invention, as differentiated in patent law from a chemical discovery. • A device may be an apparatus or an article of manufacture. — Also termed machine. [Cases: Patents 11. C.J.S. Patents §§ 20, 25.]

2. A scheme to trick or deceive; a stratagem or artifice, as in the law relating to fraud. [Cases: Fraud 3.]

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