ACK

ACK

See also: ack, ack., and ␆

Translingual

Symbol

ACK

1. (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Nantucket Memorial Airport, which serves Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States.

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English

Alternative forms

• ack

Noun

ACK (plural ACKs)

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

Antonyms

• NAK

Translations

Translations

Esperanto: kvitanca signo

Verb

ACK (third-person singular simple present ACKs, present participle ACKing, simple past and past participle ACKed)

1. (networking) To acknowledge a packet or a message received from a network.
   • 2005, Michael Welzl, Network Congestion Control: Managing Internet Traffic (page 150)

     Yet, with full ECN nonce functionality and totally unreliable behaviour, ACKing individual packets only would require the receiver to maintain state that could theoretically grow without bounds.

Derived terms

• unacked

See also

• roger (radio telecommunications):

References

• ACK on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AKC, cak