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: --
Sugar is obtained by crushing and processing sugar cane.
In the second experiment they obtained a very clear result.
First editions of these books are now almost impossible to obtain.
to obtain permission
2 (especially of a situation) to exist: --
A 'crater' of finite width was thereby obtained.
Insights into this planning can be obtained by examining its themes and symbols.
For each of them, the theoretical analysis of its relevance is compared to scores obtained through evaluation.
The cost expression obtained is then applied to symbolic arguments and reduced to remove all the -abstractions.
The terms shown so far have been obtained by symbolic manipulation.
Approximately 3 kg of fresh litter obtained from the removal-treatment plots and the surrounding area was added to the addition-treatment plots.
Information of that type can best be obtained through continuing longitudinal study of highly stressed samples such as the present one.
If the first one is the case, numbers of juvenile recruits should be higher when larger samples were obtained.
