different between gaining vs acquisition

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?n??/

Verb

gaining

1. present participle of gain

Noun

gaining (plural gainings)

1. Gain; profit.
   • 1807, The London Medical and Physical Journal

     […] yet, when the Doctor was about it, he might as well have told the public, that my gainings were annually thirty thousand, instead of three […]

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French acquisicion, from Latin acquis?ti?, from acquirere; equivalent to acquire +? -ition.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ.kw?.?z?.??n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

acquisition (countable and uncountable, plural acquisitions)

1. The act or process of acquiring.

   The acquisition of sports equipment can be fun in itself.

2. The thing acquired or gained; a gain.

   That graphite tennis racquet is quite an acquisition.

3. (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.

Synonyms

• (an act of acquiring): accession, procurement
• (a thing acquired): accession, acquirement

Antonyms

• abandonment

Derived terms

• macroacquisition

Translations

Further reading

• acquisition at OneLook Dictionary Search
• acquisition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

From Old French acquisicion, borrowed from Latin acquis?ti?, acquis?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ki.zi.sj??/

Noun

acquisition f (plural acquisitions)

1. acquisition (fact of acquiring)

2. acquisition (the thing obtained)
3. purchase (the act or process of seeking and obtaining something)

Related terms

• acquéreur (“purchaser”)
• acquérir (“acquire”)
• acquis (“asset”)

Further reading

• “acquisition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).