# acquisition

Pronunciation: say "ak-wi-ZISH-uhn" /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/

## Noun

1. The act or process of gaining or coming to possess something.
   - Simple: The act of getting or gaining something new.
   - _The acquisition of wealth was the driving goal of his career._
   - _Skill acquisition speeds up when learners get regular feedback._
2. Something that has been gained or obtained; a valuable addition.
   - Simple: Something that you have gotten, won, or bought.
   - _The gallery's latest acquisition is a striking modern sculpture._
   - _Among the club's recent acquisitions was a promising young goalkeeper._
3. The process of sampling signals that measure real-world physical conditions and converting them into digital numeric values a computer can manipulate.
   - Simple: Collecting measurements from the real world and turning them into numbers a computer can use.
   - _The engineers configured the acquisition system to record temperature and pressure at once._
   - _During the flight test, data acquisition captured signals from dozens of sensors._

## Origin

This word came into Middle English via Old French acquisicion, from Latin acquisītiō, based on the verb acquirere. It is equivalent to "acquire" plus "-ition."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/acquisition (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).