0 to invent a plan, system, object, etc., usually using your intelligence or imagination: --
1 to invent something, esp. with intelligence or imagination: --
The committee is devising an agenda for the upcoming political convention.
He devised a new way to treat mental depression.
2 to use knowledge and imagination to think of or plan something: --
3 to leave someone money or property in a will (= document stating what will happen to someone's property after their death): --
4 property given to someone in a will (= document stating what will happen to someone's property after their death), or the part of a will that gives property to someone: --
An experimental situation was devised in which a subject was telephoned in order to arrange the repair of a household appliance.
A reference model, devised for each scenario, indicated critical and relevant cues.
A new research tool had to be devised to examine the specific research questions of the study.
Only in recent years have special kinetic methods and traps been devised for perceiving intermediates.
Certainly no-one has ever devised a formula for calculating such a value.
In order to identify the problems that undermined the study, a questionnaire was devised by the lead researcher.
To unite these two methods of working, strategies for this second type of interactive improvisation were devised, based on object-cues.
An -stable notion of active dereferences can be devised, but would be more complicated.
