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acme
(encz) | acme,nejvyšší dosažitelný bod Zdeněk Brož |
acme
(encz) | acme,vrchol n: Zdeněk Brož |
acme
(encz) | ACME,Společnost pro všechno [zkr.] A Company that Makes
Everything Michal Ambrož |
acme
(gcide) | acme \ac"me\ ([a^]k"m[-e]), n. [Gr. 'akmh` point, top.]
1. The top or highest point; the culmination.
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The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry.
--Pope.
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The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of
its supremacy. --I. Taylor.
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2. (Med.) The crisis or height of a disease. AS
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3. Mature age; full bloom of life. --B. Jonson.
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acme
(wn) | acme
n 1: the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage
of development; "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: acme, height, elevation, peak,
pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop,
top]
2: the highest point (of something); "at the peak of the
pyramid" [syn: vertex, peak, apex, acme] |
acme
(foldoc) | ACME
/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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acme
(jargon) | Acme
n.
[from Greek akme highest point of perfection or achievement] 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 “Road-runner” cartoons. In these cartoons, the famished Wile E.
Coyote was forever attempting to catch up with, trap, and eat the
Road-runner. 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 wooden crates
labeled prominently with the Acme name — which, probably not by
coincidence, was the trade name of a peg bar system for superimposing
animation cels used by cartoonists since forever. Acme devices invariably
malfunctioned in improbable and violent ways.
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acme
(vera) | ACME
A Company that Makes Everything (slang)
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Synacme
(gcide) | Synacme \Syn*ac"me\, Synacmy \Syn*ac"my\, n. [NL. synacme. See
Syn-, and Acme.] (Bot.)
Same as Synanthesis.
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