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.

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