0 past simple and past participle of obtain
1 to get something, especially by asking for it, buying it, working for it, or producing it from something else:
to obtain permission
First editions of these books are now almost impossible to obtain.
In the second experiment they obtained a very clear result.
Sugar is obtained by crushing and processing sugar cane.
2 (especially of a situation) to exist:
It's hard to obtain truly independent financial advice.
The education director is persevering in his attempt to obtain additional funding for the school.
The money was dishonestly obtained.
The documents are the first substantive information obtained by the investigators.
A second, perhaps more important reason, is that qualitative insights can be obtained.
The qualitative pattern of results obtained in previous sections of the paper, however, remains unchanged.
The full articles of these trials were obtained and examined independently by both reviewers.
