acquisition

Meaning

Noun

• The act or process of acquiring.
• The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• accession, procurement
• accession, acquirement

Opposite words

• abandonment

Origin

• From Middle English, borrowed from Old French acquisicion, from Latin acquisītiō, from acquirere; equivalent to acquire + -ition.