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Encyclopedia > Acquisition
Look up acquisition in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Acquisition may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...


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Customer acquisition is the process of gaining customers with different marketing strategies. ... The phrase mergers and acquisitions or M&A refers to the aspect of corporate finance strategy and management dealing with the merging and acquiring of different companies as well as other assets. ... U.S. military MILSTAR communications satellite A communications satellite (sometimes abbreviated to comsat) is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purposes of telecommunications. ... Contracting with the U.S. Government is based on the same principles as commercial contracting and can be very profitable, but is sufficiently different from commercial contracting to require special care. ... Language acquisition is the process by which language develops in humans. ... Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge or skill through study, experience or teaching. ... Acquisition is a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer and BitTorrent client for Mac OS X. It is based on LimeWire and is a shareware product, priced at $17. ...

Star Trek

  • Acquisition (Enterprise episode), a first season episode of the television show Star Trek: Enterprise
  • Rules of Acquisition, set of guidelines intended to ensure the profitability of businesses owned by the ultra-capitalist Ferengi in the fictional Star Trek universe

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Acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (191 words)
In psychology, specifically in behaviorism and social learning theory, acquisition is the process by which humans adapt to their environments, learn or become conditioned.
In business, an acquisition is when one company purchases another (see mergers and acquisitions, takeover).
Acquisition is an open source based peer-to-peer Gnutella client for Mac OS X.
Language acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1375 words)
First language acquisition concerns the development of language in children, while second language acquisition focuses on language development in adults as well.
The father of most nativist theories of language acquisition is linguist Noam Chomsky, who brought greater attention to the innate capacity of children for learning language.
The argument from the poverty of stimulus is that there are principles of grammar that cannot be learned on the basis of positive input alone, however complete and grammatical that evidence is. This argument is not vulnerable to objection based on evidence from interaction studies such as Snow's.
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