Other Definitions
acquisition (dict)

Acquisition

In engineering, the term acquisition has the following meanings: 1. In satellite communications, the process of locking tracking equipment on a signal from a communications satellite. 2. The process of achieving synchronization. 3. In servo systems, the process of entering the boundary conditions that will allow the servo loop to capture the signal and achieve lock-on. Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
Mergers and acquisitions, takeover, in business, acquisition is when one company purchases another.
Acquisition is an open source based peer-to-peer Gnutella client for Mac OS X. It highlights files in the user's iTunes library.

 

<< PreviousWord BrowserNext >>
scale (zoology)
scale (music)
leigh brackett
13th century bc
14th century bc
15th century bc
kingsbury commitment
uss merrimack
accidental
list of sports history organizations
lon
american goldfinch
meien
treblinka
luc besson
cornish
absolute gain
access
access charge
access control
access denial
access failure
access time
baud
acknowledgement
acoustic coupler
active laser medium
adaptive communications
adaptive predictive coding
adder subtracter
address
addressability
address message
adjacent channel interference
advanced data communication control procedures
aerial insert
aeronautical emergency communications system plan
aiod leads
airborne radio relay
air ground worldwide communications system
alarm sensor
a law algorithm
allan variance
alphanumeric