acme
pronunciation
How to pronounce acme in British English:
UK [ˈækmi]
How to pronounce acme in American English:
US [ ˈækmi]
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- Noun:
- the highest level or degree attainable
- the highest point (of something)
Word Origin
- acme (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.
Example
- 1. Several of berkshire 's subsidiaries are particularly sensitive to the housing market , such as acme brick , shaw carpet , and johns manville .
- 2. We just have one or several quality in work or in life to acme , so can achieve great success in business .
- 3. Although the compact was greeted as the acme of european solidarity , it is more likely to provoke strife .
- 4. Sales are back up , the head count is now up to 130 , and acme reckons it will hire 20 more people this year to handle the growing order book .
- 5. A general method , the method of all the , you have a virtue of acme will naturally have other quality , and everything all want to become their own virtue , will result is not their own virtue all things .