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ACME Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
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ACME
<company, jargon> /ak'mee/ 1. A Company that Makes Everything. The canonical imaginary business. Possibly also derived from the word "acme" meaning "highest point".
2. A program for MS-DOS.
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(1994-11-08)
<company, jargon> /ak'mee/ 1. A Company that Makes Everything. The canonical imaginary business. Possibly also derived from the word "acme" meaning "highest point".
2. A program for MS-DOS.
[What does it do?]
(1994-11-08)
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Acme
n. The canonical supplier of bizarre, elaborate, and non-functional gadgetry - where Rube Goldberg and Heath Robinson (two cartoonists who specialized in elaborate contraptions) shop. The name has been humorously expanded as A (or American) Company Making Everything. (In fact, Acme was a real brand sold from Sears Roebuck catalogs in the early 1900s.) Describing some X as an "Acme X" either means "This is insanely great", or, more likely, "This looks insanely great on paper, but in practice it's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it." Compare pistol.
n. The canonical supplier of bizarre, elaborate, and non-functional gadgetry - where Rube Goldberg and Heath Robinson (two cartoonists who specialized in elaborate contraptions) shop. The name has been humorously expanded as A (or American) Company Making Everything. (In fact, Acme was a real brand sold from Sears Roebuck catalogs in the early 1900s.) Describing some X as an "Acme X" either means "This is insanely great", or, more likely, "This looks insanely great on paper, but in practice it's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it." Compare pistol.
This term, specially cherished by American hackers and explained here for the benefit of our overseas brethren, comes from the Warner Brothers' series of "Roadrunner" cartoons. In these cartoons, the famished Wile E. Coyote was forever attempting to catch up with, trap, and eat the Roadrunner. His attempts usually involved one or more high-technology Rube Goldberg devices - rocket jetpacks, catapults, magnetic traps, high-powered slingshots, etc. These were usually delivered in large cardboard boxes, labeled prominently with the Acme name. These devices invariably malfunctioned in improbable and violent ways.
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ACME
A Company that Makes Everything.The imaginary business.A program for MS-DOS.
A Company that Makes Everything.The imaginary business.A program for MS-DOS.
ACME Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Acme
(n.)
The top or highest point; the culmination.
(n.)
The crisis or height of a disease.
(n.)
Mature age; full bloom of life.
(n.)
The top or highest point; the culmination.
(n.)
The crisis or height of a disease.
(n.)
Mature age; full bloom of life.
| WordNet 2.0 |
acme
Noun
1. the highest level or degree attainable; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession"
(synonym) height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, top
(hypernym) degree, level, stage, point
2. the highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid"
(synonym) vertex, peak, apex
(hypernym) extreme point, extreme, extremum
(hyponym) crown
Noun
1. the highest level or degree attainable; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession"
(synonym) height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, top
(hypernym) degree, level, stage, point
2. the highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid"
(synonym) vertex, peak, apex
(hypernym) extreme point, extreme, extremum
(hyponym) crown
| Anagram |
acme
came mace
came mace
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acme
acme
\ac"me\ (&?;), n. [gr. &?; point, top.]
1. the top or highest point; the culmination. the very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. the moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. taylor.
2. (med.) the crisis or height of a disease.
3. mature age; full bloom of life. jonson.
acme
n
1. the highest level or degree attainable: "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession" [syn: height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, top]
2. the highest point of something [syn: vertex, peak, apex]
acme
\ac"me\ (&?;), n. [gr. &?; point, top.]
1. the top or highest point; the culmination. the very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. the moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. taylor.
2. (med.) the crisis or height of a disease.
3. mature age; full bloom of life. jonson.
acme
n
1. the highest level or degree attainable: "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession" [syn: height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, top]
2. the highest point of something [syn: vertex, peak, apex]
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acme
The highest point, or summit.
The highest point, or summit.
ACME Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
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15610
State: PENNSYLVANIA
City: ACME
State: PENNSYLVANIA
City: ACME
71316
State: LOUISIANA
City: ACME
82839
State: WYOMING
City: ACME
98220
State: WASHINGTON
City: ACME
ACME Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
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ACME
Advisory Committee on the Marine Environment [> ICES]
Advisory Committee on the Marine Environment [> ICES]
ACME Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
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ACME
ACME Communications, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Holding company with subsidiary which owns and operates broadcast television stations.
ACME Communications, Inc.
Exchange: Nasdaq
Holding company with subsidiary which owns and operates broadcast television stations.
ACU
Acme United Corporation.
Exchange: AMEX
Manufactures and distributes consumer products such as scissors, shears, rulers and first aid kits for school, office and home use; And formerly produces medical products including disposable scissors, instruments and sterile procedure trays for hospital distributors.
ACME Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Acme
Acme (, the peak, zenith, prime) denotes the best of something.
In contemporary culture and society it is used in diverse contexts:
- Acme Corporation is a fictional company that exists in the world of Looney Tunes cartoons. Subsequently it has been adopted widely in all forms of fiction as the archetypal name for a fictional company or corporation. (Sometimes made a backronym to: A Company that Makes Everything - though this is in dispute.)
- ACME Detective Agency, also called ACME CrimeNet or ACME TimeNet, is a fictional detective agency from the Carmen Sandiego series of computer games and television shows. The agency is dedicated to capturing Carmen Sandiego and her henchmen, and players take on the role of an ACME detective to try and track them down.
- Acme thread form is a screw thread used in specialized applications such as vises and leadscrews.
- Acme (ADL) is an architecture description language by Carnegie Mellon University.
- ACME (album) is the sixth album by New York City blues/indie rock group the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
- Acme (band) is a German metalcore band.
- Acme (text editor) is a text editor and development environment originally for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system.
- ACME (health software) automated determination of cause of death, used by several governments for the generation of national mortality statistics.
- Acne vulgaris is a skin condition originally called acme in Greek, but whose spelling has been corrupted.
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