acme

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); "at the peak of the pyramid" [syn: vertex, peak, apex]

see ACME

English

Etymology

sc=Grek.

Noun

1. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.

   The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. - Alexander Pope

   The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. - I. Taylor

2. The crisis or height of a disease.
3. Mature age; full bloom of life. - Ben Jonson

Translations

References

Anagrams

• came
• mace

Acme (, the peak, zenith, prime) denotes the best of something.

Acme or ACME may also refer to:

Fiction, media and culture

• Acme Corporation (A Company that Makes Everything), a fictional company in the cartoon world of Looney Tunes
• ACME Detective Agency, a fictional detective agency from the Carmen Sandiego series of computer games and television shows
• Acme (album), the sixth album by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Science, medicine and technology

• ACME (health software) automated determination of cause of death, used by several governments for the generation of national mortality statistics
• Acne vulgaris, a skin condition originally called acme in Greek, but whose spelling has been corrupted
• Acme thread form, a screw thread used in specialized applications such as vises and leadscrews
• Acme (ADL), an architecture description language by Carnegie Mellon University
• Acme (text editor) is a text editor and development environment originally for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system
• Acme (automobile), an automobile built between 1903–1911 in Reading, Pennsylvania
• ACME, open source development with Apache, ColdFusion, MySQL and Eclipse, coined by the The ACME Guide book/PDF

Companies

• Air Craft Marine Engineering, an aircraft designer based in Van Nuys, California, USA during the 1950s
• Acme Aircraft Corporation, an aircraft manufacturer based in Rockford, Illinois, USA during the 1920s
• Acme Boots, a manufacturer of western footwear owned by Berkshire Hathaway
• Acme Brick Company, a brick manufacturer that is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway
• ACME Communications, a television broadcasting company, based in Santa Ana, USA
• Acme Fresh Market, a chain of grocery stores in Akron, Ohio, USA
• Acme Industrial Hardware Trading L.L.C., a shelving and material handling equipment supplier in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Acme Markets, a chain of grocery stores in the northeastern United States
• Acme-Nuage Systems a shelving and material handling equipment supplier in Bangalore, India
• Acme Novelty Library, a comic book by cartoonist Chris Ware and published by Fantagraphics Books
• Acme Packet, a VoIP Session Border Controller manufacturer
• Acme Records, an independent record label
• Acme Whistles, a major producer of whistles

Locations

Canada

• Acme, Alberta

United States

• Acme, Indiana
• Acme, Louisiana
• Acme Township, Michigan
• Acme Township, North Dakota
• Acme, Pennsylvania
• Acme, Washington

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