Acknowledgment

Acknowledgment

Acknowledgment (also spelled acknowledgement) can refer to:

*Acknowledgment (creative arts) (and scientific literature and writing), a statement of gratitude for assistance in producing a work
**Acknowledgment index, an experimental method for analyzing the scientific literature
*Acknowledgment (law), a declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity
**Acknowledgment of service
*Acknowledgment (electronic tax filing), an official electronic notice from the IRS or a state tax authority indicating whether or not the e-file was accepted and considered “filed” or rejected and considered “not filed.”
*Acknowledgment (social), a written thank you note expressing gratitude for gifts, assistance, or expressions of sympathy

Telecommunication
*Acknowledgment code (ACK), a signal used to indicate acknowledgment, specifically:
**ACK (TCP), a packet used in TCP to acknowledge receipt of a packet
**Acknowledge character, an ASCII control character
**Negative-acknowledge character, an ASCII control character
**Retransmission (data networks): Cumulative Acknowledgment, Negative Acknowledgment (NACK), Positive Acknowledgment with Retransmission (PAR), Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)
**Acknowledgment window size

Other
* Acknowledgment of receipt, a postal service
* Acknowledgement - ethical, as in to "offer someone acknowledgement" or to "provide recognition". To take someone seriously as an end in themselves, as a human worthy of respect, as having a valid point of view, as a genuine ethical subject.

ee also

*ACK
*Credit (creative arts), acknowledgment given to someone in the creative arts


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  • acknowledgment — or acknowledgement [ak näl′ij mənt, ək näl′ijmənt] n. 1. an acknowledging or being acknowledged; admission; avowal 2. something done or given in acknowledging, as an expression of thanks 3. recognition of the authority or claims of 4. a legal… …   English World dictionary

  • acknowledgment — n. 1) to make an acknowledgment of 2) a frank; grateful; public acknowledgment 3) in acknowledgment of * * * [ək nɒlɪdʒmənt] grateful public acknowledgment a frank in acknowledgment of to make an acknowledgment of …   Combinatory dictionary

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  • acknowledgment — To acknowledge is to admit, affirm, declare, testify, avow, confess, or own as genuine. Favello v. Bank of America Nat. Trust & Savings Ass n, 24 Cal.App.2d 342, 74 P.2d 1057, 1058. Admission or affirmation of obligation or responsibility.… …   Black's law dictionary

  • acknowledgment — To acknowledge is to admit, affirm, declare, testify, avow, confess, or own as genuine. Favello v. Bank of America Nat. Trust & Savings Ass n, 24 Cal.App.2d 342, 74 P.2d 1057, 1058. Admission or affirmation of obligation or responsibility.… …   Black's law dictionary

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