Hypertext Webster Gateway: "acme"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Acme \Ac"me\, n. [Gr. ? point, top.]
1. The top or highest point; the culmination.
The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry.
--Pope.
The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of
its supremacy. --I. Taylor.
2. (Med.) The crisis or height of a disease.
3. Mature age; full bloom of life. --B. Jonson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
acme
n 1: the highest level or degree attainable: "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" [syn: {height}, {elevation},
{peak}, {pinnacle}, {summit}, {superlative}, {top}]
2: the highest point of something [syn: {vertex}, {peak}, {apex}]
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