proacquisition

noun

the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.

something acquired; addition: a recent acquisition to the museum.

Linguistics. the act or process of achieving mastery of a language or a linguistic rule or element: child language acquisition; second language acquisition.

Origin:
1375–1425; Middle English adquisicioun, a(c)quisicion < Latin acquīsītiōn- (stem of acquīsītiō), equivalent to acquīsīt(us), past participle of acquīrere to acquire + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

ac·qui·si·tion·al, adjective

ac·quis·i·tor

[uh-kwiz-i-ter] , noun

pre·ac·qui·si·tion, noun

pro·ac·qui·si·tion, adjective

re·ac·qui·si·tion, noun

su·per·ac·qui·si·tion, noun

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acquisition (ˌækwɪˈzɪʃən)

—n
1.	the act of acquiring or gaining possession
2.	something acquired
3.	a person or thing of special merit added to a group
4.	astronautics the process of locating a spacecraft, satellite, etc, esp by radar, in order to gather tracking and telemetric information

[C14: from Latin acquīsītiōn-, from acquīrere to acquire]

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Word Origin & History

acquisition

late 14c., "act of obtaining," from L. acquisitionem, from stem of acquirere "get in addition," from ad- "extra" + quærere "to seek to obtain" (see query). Meaning "thing obtained" is from late 15c. The vowel change of -ae- to -i- in Latin is due to a L. phonetic rule

involving unaccented syllables in compounds.

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Medical Dictionary

acquisition ac·qui·si·tion (āk'wĭ-zĭsh'ən)
n.
The empirical demonstration in psychology of an increase in the strength of the conditioned response in successive trials in which the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli are paired.

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