acquisition

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 17.15 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act or process of acquiring.

   The acquisition of sports equipment can be fun in itself.

2. noun The thing acquired or gained; a gain.

   That graphite tennis racquet is quite an acquisition.

3. noun 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.

Similar words

acquirement attainment accomplishment skill learning acquire procure obtain gain receive

Often followed by

of and by is in or to process cost

Word family

acquire acquired acquires acquiring acquisitional acquisitions acquisitor acquisitors