achievement|əˈtʃiːvmənt|Also 6–9 atchievement, and see sense 3.[a.Fr.achèvement a finishing, completing,n.of action,f.achever. See achieve.]1.The action of achieving, completing, or attaining by exertion; completion, accomplishment, successful performance.1475CaxtonJason 110 b,With thachieuement of these deuises the king Oetes approched.c1585Faire Em i. 69The bliss That hangs on quick achievement of my love.1638KnollesHist.Turkes 182 (ed.5)He would vndertake the atchieuement of that exployt.1815SoutheyRoderick ix. 19So it be lawful, and within the bounds of possible atchievement.1878B. TaylorPr.Deukalion i. vi. 46What virtue lies More in achievement than its hot desire?2.Anything achieved, accomplished, or won by exertion; a feat, a distinguished and successful action, a victory.1593R. HarveyPhilad.106Spending the might of it[the flesh]in contemplatiue assaults and atchiuements.1602WarnerAlbion'sEng.xi. lxviii. 289We intreate of great Achiuements done By English, in contrarie Clymes.1678JordanLond.Triumph. in Heath Grocer'sComp.(1869) 522You might see an hundred persons confusedly scrambling in the dirt for the frail atchievement of a bunch of raisins.1794SullivanViewNat.II. 367The many and great atchievements attributed to heroes of the first ages.1824DibdinLibr.Comp.161The achievements of Agincourt and Waterloo.1855BrewsterNewton II. xxvii. 398The achievements of genius, like the source from which they spring, are indestructible.3.Her.An escutcheon or ensign armorial, granted in memory of some achievement, or distinguished feat. (In this sense variously contracted or corrupted to atcheament, achement, atch'ment, ach'ment, achment, hachement, hatchment.)1548HallChronicle, Henry V, 50The Hachementes wer borne onely by capitaynes.1586J. FerneBlazon of Gentrie 186The creast, tymber, mantell, or worde, bee no part of the coat-armour; they be addicions called atcheaments.1610J. GuillimDispl. Heraldry vi. v. 394An Atchievement, according to Leigh, is the Arms of every Gentleman, well marshalled with the supporters, Helmet, Wreath and Crests, etc.1750GrayLet.in Poems (1775) 214To raise the cieling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements cloathing.1809W. Taylor in RobberdsMemoir II. 283Let no motto be written upon its ach'ment but Resurgam.1868StanleyWestm.Abb. iv. 201Graves, piled with the standards and achievements of the noble families of Florence.4.Psychol.Chiefly U.S.Performance in a standardized test (achievement test) or tests. So achievement age, achievement quotient (abbrev.A.Q.): seequot.1921.1921Univ.Illin.Bur.Educ.Res.Bull.VI. 5Medians are the mental age norms, which are used as a basis for translating the point scores into achievement ages.Ibid.,Provision is made for comparing a pupil's achievement score..with the norm corresponding to his mental age by dividing his achievement age by the standard score for his mental age. This quotient is called the Achievement Quotient.Ibid.,The plan consists of establishing for the achievement tests mental age norms which are used to supplement the usual grade norms.1934WarrenDict.Psychol.1/1AQ,abbrev.for accomplishment (or achievement) quotient.1957Encycl.Brit.XVIII. 673/2Tests of proficiencies, also called achievement tests, are intended to measure outcomes of systematic education and training in school or occupation toward a conventionally accepted pattern of skill or knowledge... Several subject tests may be combined into an achievement battery for measuring general school proficiency either in point scores or ‘achievement ages’ and perhaps ‘accomplishment quotients’ (AA/CA).Add:[4.]b.SpecialComb.achievement motivation, motivation to attain a desired end or level of performance,esp.where a degree of competitiveness is involved; the drive to excel through addressing and succeeding at difficult tasks.1949McClelland & Liberman inJrnl.Personality XVIII. 247Our measures of n Achievement are not reflecting simply a temporary motivational state but do in fact represent..the level of *achievement motivation a subject maintains over a period of months.1953D. C. McClellandet al. Achievement Motive v. 145As achievement motivation is increased, the imaginative stories that subjects write become increasingly more concerned with achievement.1962Listener 11 Jan. 61/1Tests of what is known as ‘achievement motivation’ do discriminate between over- and under-achievers.1982Psychol.Rep.L. 51One aspect of training children that seems instrumental in the development of achievement motivation is maternal expectancies for achievement.