ACQUIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acquired mean? 

• ACQUIRED (adjective)
  The adjective ACQUIRED has 1 sense:

1. gotten through environmental forces

  Familiarity information: ACQUIRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACQUIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gotten through environmental forces

Context example:

acquired characteristics (such as a suntan or a broken nose) cannot be passed on

Similar:

nonheritable; noninheritable (not inheritable)

 Context examples 

TNM pathologic distant metastasis findings are based on clinical findings supplemented by histopathologic examination of one or more tissue specimens acquired during surgery.

(Bladder Cancer Pathologic Distant Metastasis TNM Finding v6, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers measured all major air pollutants with longitudinal increases in percent emphysema revealed by more than 15,000 CT scans acquired from 2000 to 2018.

(Study finds link between long-term exposure to air pollution and emphysema, National Institutes of Health)

On November 4, Hungarian daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet revealed a deal whereby, on October 29, Hungarian state-owned enterprise HDT Védelmi Ipari Kft. (HDT Limited) acquired Austrian mortar and shell manufacturer Hirtenberger Defence Group.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

The data acquired from the GPM constellation of satellites are used to make the IMERG product.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)

A respiratory disorder due to an acquired hypersensitivity to the dust of bird droppings.

(Bird Fancier's Lung, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Variation in the degree of acquired resistance might partly explain why fungal pathogens cause extinctions of some animal populations but not others.

(Amphibians can acquire resistance to deadly fungus, NSF)

A late precursor of a granulocyte in which the nucleus is in the form of a curved or coiled band, not having acquired the typical multilobar shape of the mature polymorphonuclear neutrophil.

(Band Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital or acquired defect in the bile acid biosynthesis, resulting in progressive liver disease.

(Bile Acid Synthesis Defect, NCI Thesaurus)

The first type of penicillin resistance occurred when bacteria acquired an enzyme, known as a beta-lactamase, which destroys penicillin.

(Widely-available antibiotics could be used in the treatment of ‘superbug’ MRSA, University of Cambridge)

TNM pathologic primary tumor findings are based on clinical findings supplemented by histopathologic examination of one or more tissue specimens acquired during surgery.

(Bladder Cancer Pathologic Primary Tumor TNM Finding v6, NCI Thesaurus)