Erfassen

gerund of erfassen

(formal, transitive, uncommon, weak) to grasp, to grip, to seize (with one's hands)
(formal, transitive, weak) to collide with, to crash into, to run over (especially of vehicles colliding with people, animals or movable objects)
(formal, transitive, weak) to catch, to hit (of spreading fires, avalanches, gusts of wind, etc. affecting an object)
(transitive, weak) to realize, to conceive, to comprehend
(transitive, weak) to capture, to collect, to measure, to record (to add one or more data points to an existing aggregate data set, or to create a data set out of a property in general)