Acquisition

Acquisition may refer to:

• Takeover, the acquisition of a company
• Mergers and acquisitions, strategy of buying and selling of various companies to quickly grow a company
• Procurement, the acquisition of goods and/or services at the best possible total cost of ownership
  • Military acquisition, the process of acquiring products for national defence
• "Acquisition" (Enterprise), the 18th episode of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise
• Seismic acquisition, the artificial generation and recording of seismic data.
• Acquisition (software), a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer and BitTorrent client for Mac OS X
• Acquisition (forensic process), the creation of a disk image for use in digital forensics.

See also

• All pages beginning with "Acquisition"
• All pages with titles containing "Acquisition"
• Acquire, board game
• Acquire (game developer)
• Acquired characteristic
• Acquired disorder
• Acquired lands
• Acquired taste

Acquisition refers to the first stages of learning when a response is established. In classical conditioning, acquisition refers to the period of time when the stimulus comes to evoke the conditioned response.