acquisition
[ ak-wuh-zish-uh n ]
/ ˌæk wəˈzɪʃ ən /
noun
the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
something acquired; addition: public excitement about the museum's recent acquisitions.
the purchase of one business enterprise by another: the acquisition of a rival corporation; mergers and acquisitions.
Linguistics.
the act or process of achieving mastery of a language or a linguistic rule or element: child language acquisition; second language acquisition.
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acquisition
/ (ˌækwɪˈzɪʃən) /
noun
the act of acquiring or gaining possession
something acquired
a person or thing of special merit added to a group
astronautics
the process of locating a spacecraft, satellite, etc, esp by radar, in order to gather tracking and telemetric information
Word Origin for acquisition
C14: from Latin
acquīsītiōn-, from
acquīrere to
acquire
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acquisition
[ ăk′wĭ-zĭsh′ən ]
n.
The empirical demonstration in psychology of an increase in the strength of the conditioned response in successive trials in which the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli are paired.