rapid acquisition
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrapidandacquisition
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rapid
adjective
uk/ˈræp.ɪd/us/ˈræp.ɪd/
fast ...
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acquisition
noun
uk/ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/us/ˌæk.wəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the process of ...
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(Definition ofrapidandacquisitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The scanning method allows therapidacquisitionof images covering areas at the square centimeter level and was verified elsewhere.
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Initially, it was hypothesized that the pidgin group would demonstrate morerapidacquisitionof vocabulary than the grammar group.
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Recently, attention has been focused on the aspects of language structure that may facilitate thisrapidacquisition.
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Rapidacquisitionof linguistic categories or constructions is sometimes regarded as evidence of innate knowledge.
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This might have helped in therapidacquisitionand checking of quality.
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Thus, declarative memory may acquire knowledge initially, thanks to itsrapidacquisitionabilities, whereas the procedural system gradually learns analogous knowledge.
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Although preschool children are limited by immature memory strategies, theirrapidacquisitionof cognitive concepts and vocabulary provides evidence for functional, and in some respects advanced, declarative memory abilities.
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Note that therapidacquisitionof onset - rime segmentation skills cannot be attributed unambiguously to the rime-based literacy intervention in the absence of a control group.
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Third, differences in innate immune response between adults and children could underlie the morerapidacquisitionof infection by the adult population.
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Though we are unable at present to quantify exactly the extent of such repeated loss of past learning, it does seem likely to be a serious impediment torapidacquisition.
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I refer to therapidacquisitionfor national purposes of home-grown timber.
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I welcome the provision for the morerapidacquisitionof land.
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There are similar powers ofrapidacquisition.
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These are important, not only for therapidacquisitionof land but also to defeat the land speculators who step in and push the price of land up.
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This allowsrapidacquisitionand rapid real-time processing of scene information.
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Application of high scan rate allowsrapidacquisitionof a voltammogram within several milliseconds and ensures high temporal resolution of this electroanalytical technique.
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