ACK Definition

noun

(military, now historical) The letter A as used in signalling and other types of communications.

Wiktionary

(data communications) Acknowledgment signal.

Wiktionary

(Internet) An acknowledgement either of a packet or a message received from a network.

Wiktionary
interjection

(radio communications) Acknowledged.

Wiktionary
Expressing distaste, alarm, or trepidation.
Wiktionary
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A transmission control character sent by a station indicating that it is ready to receive a transmission. In ASCII, ACK is represented by the bit pattern 0110000. See also ASCII.

Webster's New World Telecom

A positive acknowledgement that a message, block, or frame has been received without error across a communications circuit, that the data set can be erased from buffer memory, and that the next data set can be sent. See also block, circuit, data set, frame, message, NAK, and station.

Webster's New World Telecom

Other Word Forms of ACK

Noun

Singular:
ACK
Plural:
acks

Origin of ACK

  • Arbitrary formation.

    From Wiktionary

  • Imitative.

    From Wiktionary

ACK Sentence Examples

  • B ack in the Eighties, a Labor election manifesto was famously dubbed the " longest suicide note in history " .

  • This is assured by requiring incoming TCP packets to have the ACK bit set in the TCP header carried by every packet.

  • The frames hang vertically from the bottom of the overhead bridge, and rest against a sill at the bottom when the weir is in operation, the openings between the frames being closed below the water-level by rolling-up curtains or sliding panels, which are lowered or raised by a travelling winch carried by a small foot-bridge formed by hinged brackets at the p ack of the frames, and situated a little above the highest floodlevel.

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Words Starting With

AACACK

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KCKACK

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Words Starting With A and Ending With K

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