Acquisition vs. Acquiring — What's the Difference?

An asset or object bought or obtained, typically by a library or museum

To gain possession of

The learning or developing of a skill, habit, or quality

To get by one's own efforts

The act of acquiring.

To gain through experience; come by

Something acquired or gained

To locate (a target) with an aiming device or a tracking system, such as radar.

The act or process of acquiring.

The act of acquiring something;

The thing acquired or gained; a gain.

(computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.

The act or process of acquiring.

The purchase of one commercial enterprise by another, whether for cash, or in a trade of stock of the purchasing company for that of the purchased company.

The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition.

The act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something;

Something acquired;

The cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge;

An ability that has been acquired by training