acquire🔊

To get.

To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own

💬 Quotations

Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.

William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England

(medicine) To become affected by an illness.

📑 Synonyms: contract catch get

(computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

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