Meaning
10 sensesConspicuous; open; unconcealed.
Conspicuous; open; unconcealed.
Of flour: fine, and consisting mostly of the inner part of the endosperm of the grain from which it is milled.
Open, unobstructed; specifically, especially of the ductus arteriosus or foramen ovale in the heart, having not closed as would have happened in normal development.
She has a patent ductus arteriosus that will require surgery to close.
Of an infection: in the phase when the organism causing it can be detected by clinical tests.
Explicit and obvious.
Those claims are patent nonsense.
очеви́дныйočevídnyj, я́вныйjávnyj
Of a branch, leaf, etc.: outspread; also, spreading at right angles to the axis.
Protected by a legal patent.
a patent right patent medicines
(broadly, figuratively)To which someone has, or seems to have, a claim or an exclusive claim; also, inventive or particularly suited for.
(archaic)Especially of a document conferring some privilege or right: open to public perusal or use.
letters patent
(archaic)Appointed or conferred by letters patent.
- (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage
- clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
Examples
26 sentencesWhy don't you get it patented?
ruПочему бы тебе не запатентовать это?
Tom filed a patent for his invention.
ruТом подал патент на своё изобретение.
I filed a patent.
Я зареєстрував патент.
ruЯ зарегистрировал патент.
Where is the Tokyo patent office?
Transgender medicines are all off patent.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English patent, patente (“wide open; clear, unobstructed; unlimited; of a docuFrom Middle English patent, patente (“wide open; clear, unobstructed; unlimited; of a document: available for public inspection”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman and Middle French patent (modern French patent), and directly from their etymon Latin patēns (“open; accessible, passable; evident, manifest; exposed, vulnerable”), the present active participle of pateō (“to be open; to be accessible, attainable; to be exposed, vulnerable; of frontiers or land: to extent, increase”), from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out; to fly”).
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Forms
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Synonyms
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