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ACK en · NOUN

Meanings

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

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
ACKs Number=Plur lexicographic
ack alternative lexicographic

Antonyms

NAK

Translations (1)

eo kvitanca signo (Translations)

Source: en.wiktionary, “ACK” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

ACK en · VERB

Meanings

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

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
ACKs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
ACKed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ACKed Tense=Past lexicographic
ack alternative lexicographic
ACKing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

unacked

Relateds

roger: