Short for acknowledgment. A message sent by the receiving unit to the sending station or computer indicating either that the unit is ready to receive transmission or that a transmission was received without error. Compare NAK.
acinoform · acinus · ACK · ack-ack · ackee · ack-emma · ackers · acknow · acknowledge · acknowledgeable · acknowledge a child
Anti-aircraft guns; esp. the shells fired from such guns.
ack-ack gun · antiaircraft · antiaircraft gun · flack · flak · pom-pom
acinoform · acinus · ACK · ack-ack · ackee · ack-emma · ackers · acknow · acknowledge · acknowledgeable · acknowledge a child · acknowledged
Plural: ack-emmas
acinoform · acinus · ACK · ack-ack · ackee · ack-emma · ackers · acknow · acknowledge · acknowledgeable · acknowledge a child · acknowledged · acknowledgedly
Plural: ackees
Red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe; SYN. akee.
The fruit of an African tree (Blighia sapida) of the soapberry family grown in the Caribbean area, Florida, and Hawaii for its white or yellowish fleshy aril that is edible when ripe but is poisonous when immature or overripe and that has a toxic pink raphe attaching the aril to the seed; also; the tree.
acinoform · acinus · ACK · ack-ack · ackee · ack-emma · ackers · acknow · acknowledge · acknowledgeable · acknowledge a child · acknowledged
Singular of ackers is acker.
acinus · ACK · ack-ack · ackee · ack-emma · ackers · acknow · acknowledge · acknowledgeable · acknowledge a child · acknowledged · acknowledgedly · acknowledgement
ACK · ack-ack · ackee · ack-emma · ackers · acknow · acknowledge · acknowledgeable · acknowledge a child · acknowledged · acknowledgedly · acknowledgement