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ACME

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(company, jargon)ACME - /ak'mee/ 1. A Company that Makes Everything. The canonical imaginary business. Possibly also derived from the word "acme" meaning "highest point".

2. A program for MS-DOS.



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To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
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The acme of bliss, which would have been a marriage with the tragedian, was not for her in this world.
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Mine has been a tale of horrors; I have reached their acme, and what I must now relate can but be tedious to you.
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