Associations to the word «Acquisition»

Wiktionary

ACQUISITION, noun. The act or process of acquiring.
ACQUISITION, noun. The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
ACQUISITION, noun. (computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.
ACQUISITION DEBT, noun. Any debt (such as a mortgage) used to buy, build, or substantially improve a primary or secondary residence.

Dictionary definition

ACQUISITION, noun. The act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another".
ACQUISITION, noun. Something acquired; "a recent acquisition by the museum".
ACQUISITION, noun. The cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; "the child's acquisition of language".
ACQUISITION, noun. An ability that has been acquired by training.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats