The company name in the Road Runner cartoons is ironic, since the word acme is derived from Greek ( ακμή ; English transliteration: acmē ) meaning the peak, zenith or prime, and products from the fictional Acme Corporation are both generic and failure-prone.

A working port of acme for Unix-like operating systems is included in Plan 9 from User Space, a collection of various ported programs from Plan 9.

Ultimately personal character reaches its acme in the recognition that service of lost causes, through which we may learn that our ultimate loyalty is to loyalty itself.

Fitzwilliam wrote to Laurence on 16 October that " English humiliation has reached its acme ... peace was a great trial of patience, what passed at the Whig Club is no less so: I cannot bear to think of either.

The New York Times told its readers in 1913 that " The Bullingdon represents the acme of exclusiveness at Oxford ; it is the club of the sons of nobility, the sons of great wealth ; its membership represents the ' young bloods ' of the university ".

In the manuscript for book 8. 13, the word ( acme ) is written as, the origin of the modern word acne.

In general, a steel acme thread and bronze nut will back drive when the helix angle of the thread is greater than 20 °.

Inferno can run as an application on top of other operating systems, allowing Inferno's port of acme to be used on most operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and GNU / Linux.

A project called acme: stand alone complex intends to make acme run as a standalone application on the host operating system.

* On January 31, 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 lost control due to the underlubrication and subsequent failure of the horizontal stabilizer trim system jackscrew assembly's acme nut threads and crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles, killing all 88 people on board while en route to SFO.

Others, like Dennis Ritchie, had moved on to use acme instead.

The way this period should be dealt with came to a concrete acme on the 15 in the Lupercalia: the rite was directly suggested to the Roman couples by Juno Lucina in her lucus on the Esquiline, and was considered to be a rite of periodical purification and fertility.

Rather than merely using the visual examples of works such as those by Pheidias, the iconic sculptor of classical Athens, whose free standing and frieze statuary represent the acme of the classical depiction of the human form in larger-than life bronze or marble, Sicard used literary sources to explain the symbology behind the form.

The Washington Post called it " the acme of his dreams.

The term was coined after the Greek word acme, i. e., " the best age of man ".

For at least one and a half century, Sarmizegethusa was the Dacians ' capital and reached its acme under King Decebal.

It takes its name from the Greek word acme meaning summit.

These applications are made possible by external components interacting with acme through its file system interface.

Unmaintained since the port of the original acme as part of Plan 9 from User Space.

precursor of acme and sharing many of its ideas also by Rob Pike.

* acme ( 1 ) acme ( 4 ), the manuals.

* acme stand alone complex-A distribution of the Inferno version of acme packaged for Windows, OS X and Linux and including many extras and tools ( an IRC client, a wiki client, a web browser, a debugger, etc.

* http :// acme. cat-v. org-Acme resources.

The 5x86 therefore provided the acme of RiscPC Windows performance.

He consolidated the space of Humanism in the late Medieval scholarship of letters, and came to represent its acme.

Aggressive competition in the market results the profit to acme at the end of the growth stage thus beginning the maturity stage.

Virtue theory emphasizes Aristotle's belief in the polis as the acme of political organization, and the role of the virtues in enabling human beings to flourish in that environment.

Sam vs. acme editor wars occur in the Plan 9 community ( both are shipped with Plan 9 ) although both stem from a similar aesthetic bias.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

This book is also held in esteem by Jews who fall under the category of Jews-by-choice, as is evidenced by the considerable presence of Boaz in rabbinic literature.

:" Birka is the main Geatish town ( oppidum Gothorum ), situated in the middle of Sweden ( Suevoniae ), not far ( non longe ) from the temple called Uppsala ( Ubsola ) which the Swedes ( Sueones ) held in the highest esteem when it comes to the worship of the gods ; here forms an inlet of the Baltic or the Barbaric Sea a port facing north which welcomes all the wild peoples all around this sea but which is risky for those who are careless or ignorant of such places ... they have therefore blocked this inlet of the troubled sea with hidden masses of rocks along more than 100 stadions ( 18 km ).

If however it has already saved its life by self-castration and is again pursued, then it stands up and reveals that it offers no ground for their eager pursuit, and releases the hunters from all further exertions, for they esteem its flesh less.

; Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as degrees, age, race, sex, or position: Inherent in the hacker ethic is a meritocratic system where superficiality is disregarded in esteem of skill.

Diligere often has the notion " to be affectionate for ," " to esteem ," and rarely if ever is used for romantic love.

Observare is a synonym for diligere ; despite the cognate with English, this verb and its corresponding noun, observantia, often denote " esteem " or " affection.

Yet, if the purpose of Polo's tales was to impress others with tales of his high esteem and fond regard in an advanced civilization, then it is possible that Polo shrewdly would omit those details that would cause his listeners to scoff at the Chinese with a sense of European superiority.

This high esteem arises primarily from the higher social function of their work, which is regarded as vital to society as a whole and thus of having a special and valuable nature.

In Sikh history, the sword is held in very high esteem.

The great esteem in which the Galgo was held is visible in the many laws of the time designed to punish the killing or theft of this dog: Fuero of Salamanca ( 9th century ); Fuero of Cuenca ; Fuero of Zorita de los Canes ; Fuero of Molina de Aragón ( 12th century ); Fuero of Usagre ( 12th century ).

However, he will typically have one held in special esteem as his own root guru and is encouraged to view the other teachers who are less dear to him, however more exalted their status, as embodied in and subsumed by the root guru.

Thucydides evidently held Themistocles in some esteem, and is uncharacteristically fulsome in his praise for him ( see above ).

In Book I, he states, " Accordingly we may affirm that to be true art which does not appear to be art ; nor to anything must we give greater care than to conceal art, for if it is discovered, it quite destroys our credit and brings us into small esteem.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared to greatly esteem Patton and his abilities, stating " he is our greatest fighting general, and sheer joy.

He is also held in high esteem in Zonaras, whose Greek tradition seems to have been influenced by Latin.

: The group is a place where members can help each other, and the experience of being able to give something to another person can lift the member's self esteem and help develop more adaptive coping styles and interpersonal skills.

Although she is considered to have been intellectually inferior to both Joseph and Leopold, Maria Theresa understood the importance of her public persona and was able to simultaneously evoke both esteem and affection from her subjects.

By this definition, then, piety can be either genuine, in that it springs from spiritual piety, or false, in that it is an attempt to exhibit the signs of piety for their own sake, or for some other reason ( such as propitiation or public esteem ).

The title is ranked below duke, which was mostly restricted to the royal family and those that were held in high enough esteem to be granted such a title.