Acme
the highest point; summit; peak:
The empire was at the acme of its power.
Contemporary Examples
I did comedy sketches of her at acme, but she was known as ‘The Other Mrs. Gabor’ then.
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acme has a mousetrap division that is not performing very well.
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But Sanjay seems today like an adumbration, rather than the acme, of authoritarian possibilities in India.
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The team behind Indochine and acme is also opening Tijuana Picnic in the LES sometime this month.
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He is the acme of political correctness (notwithstanding the odd drone directed at “AfPak”).
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Historical Examples
The symptoms sometimes reach their acme in rather less than forty-eight hours, and then gradually subside.
A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II Various
Traffic was intense, and had reached what might be supposed its acme.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 Various
Here is at once a portrait of true humility, and the acme of high nobility.
Abraham Lincoln’s Cardinal Traits; Clark S. Beardslee
For myself I can say that the place appeared the acme of the romantic and picturesque.
A Canyon Voyage Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
It was understood to contain the acme of personal peril or disgrace.
A Singular Life Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
noun
the culminating point, as of achievement or excellence; summit; peak
n.
“highest point,” 1560s, from Greek akme “(highest) point, edge; peak of anything,” from PIE root *ak- “sharp” (see acrid). Written in Greek letters until c.1620. The U.S. grocery store chain was founded 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
company, jargon
/ak’mee/ 1. A Company that Makes Everything. The canonical imaginary business. Possibly also derived from the word “acme” meaning “highest point”.
2. A program for MS-DOS.
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