Engineering
Around engineering, the term acquisition has a as a consequence meanings:
In satellite communications, the run of locking tracking devices in the signal from a communications satellite.
The run of achieving synchronization.
In servo systems, a run of typing a boundary conditions that may allow the servomechanical loop to capture the signal & achieve lock-in.
Source: from either Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
Psychology
Around psychology, specifically in behaviorism and social learning theory, acquisition is the process by which man adapt to their environments, learn or become conditioned.
Business
In business, an acquisition is when of these company purchases an additional (view mergers and acquisitions, takeover).
In marketing, customer acquisition is the process of gaining client.
Software
Acquisition is an open source based peer-to-peer Gnutella client for Mac OS X. It highlights files in the user's iTunes library.
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