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Invention vs Acquisition - What's the difference?

invention | acquisition |

As nouns the difference between invention and acquisition

is that invention is while acquisition is the act or process of acquiring.

invention

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something invented.
  • * 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
  • Warren Sheffield is telephoning Rose long distance at half past six. Personally, I wouldn't marry a man who proposed to me over an invention .
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-10-05, volume=409, issue=8856, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The widening gyre , passage=British inventions have done more to influence the shape of the modern world than those of any other country. Many—football, the steam engine and Worcestershire sauce, to take a random selection—have spread pleasure, goodwill and prosperity. Others—the Maxim gun, the Shrapnel shell and jellied eels—have not.}}
  • The act of inventing.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
  • The capacity to invent.
  • (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two-'' and ''Three-part Inventions .
  • * 1880 , (George Grove) (editor and entry author), , page 15, Invention:
  • INVENTION .?A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces?—?15 in 2 parts and 15 in 3 parts?—?each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the Impromptu of a later day.
  • (label) The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
  • Synonyms

    * discovery

    References

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    acquisition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of acquiring.
  • The acquisition of sports equipment can be fun in itself.
  • The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
  • ''That graphite tennis racquet is quite an acquisition .

    Synonyms

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