ACK

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ACK

  1. (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Nantucket Memorial Airport, which serves Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States.

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ACK (plural ACKs)

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

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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.

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  • roger (radio telecommunications):

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