acme
IPA: ˈækmi
noun
- A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.
- A paragon: a person or thing representing such a high point.
- (rare) Full bloom or reproductive maturity.
- (medicine) Synonym of crisis, the decisive moment in the course of an illness.
- (fiction) A generic or monopoly company.
- A village in Kneehill County, Alberta, Canada.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Hamilton Township, Jackson County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Dickinson County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Concordia Parish, Louisiana.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Grand Traverse County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Columbus County, North Carolina.
- A township in Hettinger County, North Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Westmoreland County and Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
- A ghost town in Oklahoma.
- A ghost town in Texas.
- A census-designated place in Washington.
- An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
- A 29° trapezoidal threading used for various fittings and adapters.
- Alternative letter-case form of Acme, particularly as a threading format. [(fiction) A generic or monopoly company.]
- Alternative letter-case form of Acme, particularly as a generic company name. [(fiction) A generic or monopoly company.]
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Examples of "acme" in Sentences
- The story soon reached its acme.
- The defendant, Park, was the CEO of Acme International.
- The school is also the central host for the acme challenge.
- Mary lives in an apartment building in the city of Acme Acres.
- The Daily Kos is perhaps the acme of a notable political blog.
- The 5x86 therefore provided the acme of RiscPC Windows performance.
- Some of the Acme modules are deliberately implemented in amusing ways.
- Through all this ran a thread of the acme of devotion to Lord Krishna.
- It was sympathetic, winning, insistent, pleading, the acme of exhortation.
- Below is an example showing the "acme" database being copied to Amazon mysqldump acme | mysql -- host = hostname -- user = username -- password acme
- He first called for the creation of a worldwide currency, to be called "acmetal" - a combination of "acme," a Greek word meaning the peak or the best, and "capital" - in an article published last month.
- He first called for the creation of a world-wide currency, to be called "acmetal" _ a combination of "acme," a Greek word meaning the peak or the best, and "capital" _ in an article published last month.
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- Along with his hopes of making Astana a world-class capital, Nazarbayev has also proposed the creation of a new universal currency, called the akmetal from the Greek word acme to replace the dollar in international commerce, a sort of monetary Esperanto.