Associations to the word «Acme»

Wiktionary

ACME, noun. The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
ACME, noun. (medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
ACME, noun. Mature age; full bloom of life.
ACME, proper noun. (fiction) A generic large company or corporation.
ACME, proper noun. A village in Alberta, Canada.
ACME, proper noun. A ghost town in Oklahoma.
ACME, proper noun. A ghost town in Texas.
ACME, proper noun. A CDP in Washington.

Dictionary definition

ACME, noun. The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession".
ACME, noun. The highest point (of something); "at the peak of the pyramid".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats