ACK
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- (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Nantucket Memorial Airport, which serves Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States.
English
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editACK (plural ACKs)
- (networking) An acknowledgement either of a packet or a message received from a network.
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Verb
editACK (third-person singular simple present ACKs, present participle ACKing, simple past and past participle ACKed)
- (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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edit- roger (radio telecommunications):