ACME

Get Babylon's Translation Software! Free Download Now!
Babylon 8 - Your all-in-one solution
Award winning translation software trusted by millions. Translate from any language to any language.
View Demo


BabylonEnglish English dictionaryDownload this dictionary
acme
n. apex, highest point, peak


Wikipedia English The Free EncyclopediaDownload this dictionary
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.
See more at Wikipedia.org...

This article uses material from Wikipedia® and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License

WordNet 2.0 DictionaryDownload this dictionary
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


BabylonFrench English dictionaryDownload this dictionary
acmé (f)
n. acme, apex, highest point

BabylonItalian English dictionaryDownload this dictionary
acme (f)
n. acme, peak, apex, highest point

Define ACME

Translate ACME





ACME in Chinese | | ACME in French | ACME in Italian | ACME in Spanish | ACME in Dutch | ACME in Portuguese | ACME in German | ACME in Russian | ACME in Japanese | ACME in Greek | ACME in Korean | ACME in Turkish | ACME in Hebrew | ACME in Arabic | ACME in Croatian | ACME in Serbian | ACME in Swedish