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Acquisition
=== Entertainment ===
* [[Acquisition (Enterprise episode)]], a first season episode of ''Star Trek: Enterprise''.⏎
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=== Engineering ===
In [[engineering]], the term '''acquisition''' has the following meanings:

#In [[satellite communications]], the process of locking tracking equipment on a [[signaling (telecommunication)|signal]] from a [[communications satellite]].  
#The process of achieving [[synchronization]].
(contracted; show full)

'''[[Acquisition (software)|Acquisition]]''' is an [[open source]] based [[peer-to-peer]] [[Gnutella]] and [[BitTorrent]] client for [[Mac OS X]].
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=== Government Contracts ===
In [[Introduction to Contracting with the U.S. Government|government contracts]], '''acquisition''' refers to the process whereby the Government obtains goods, services,
software, rights in data, and other things, whether through purchase, lease or otherwise.