0 past simple and past participle of devise
1 to invent a plan, system, object, etc., usually using your intelligence or imagination:
Clinton and Zedillo ordered their respective Cabinets to devise a common counter-drug strategy.
We need to devise some sort of system whereby people can liaise with each other.
The umbrella was ingeniously devised to fold up into your pocket.
The scheme is devised for young people in the 15 - 20 age band.
The company has also devised a computer program that enables people to design their own homes.
This may be because the devised representation of the requirements is not sufficiently expressive to capture the distinction that has led to the different designs.
The authors have also devised specialist crossover and mutation operators.
For example, a room had been decorated in a different colour or a new housework routine had been devised.
