All 7 Uses
acquisition
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- Viktor will guard us from imperialist intruders, and we will conduct a four-day acquisition and tracking drill, with him hunting us—if he can.†
Chpt 1. *acquisition = obtaining; or possession
- Probably an acquisition exercise.†
Chpt 4.
- Acquisition game, and the sub lost.†
Chpt 4.
- The Nikolayev "Missile acquisition radars have ceased," the combat information center officer reported to the cruiser's captain, just now arrived from the bridge.†
Chpt 10.
- Okay, I got infrared acquisition.†
Chpt 10.
- A surface acquisition would be pure luck, and you don't plan for luck.†
Chpt 12.
- Its on-board programming was designed to trace thermal receptors over the entire visible horizon, interrogating everything in sight and locking on any signature that fit its acquisition parameters.†
Chpt 16.
Definitions:
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(1)
(acquisition) obtaining possession of something; or the thing possessed
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)