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Acme vs Ultimate - What's the difference?

acme | ultimate |

As nouns the difference between acme and ultimate

is that acme is the top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination while ultimate is the most basic or fundamental of a set of things.

As a proper noun ACME

is a generic large company or corporation.

As an adjective ultimate is

final; last in a series.

acme

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
  • * (rfdate), (Alexander Pope)
    • The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry.
  • * (rfdate),
    • The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy.
  • (medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
  • Mature age; full bloom of life.
    • (Ben Jonson)

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    ultimate

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia ultimate) (-)
  • Final; last in a series.
  • * {{quote-book
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  • (of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
  • Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
    • the ultimate pleasure
    the ultimate disappointment
  • *
    • Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
  • Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
  • That will happen at some time; eventual.
  • Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
  • * Coleridge
    • those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
  • Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
    • an ultimate constituent of matter

    Antonyms

    * proximate

    Derived terms

    * antepenultimate * penultimate * ultimateness

    Coordinate terms

    * (syllable adjectives)

    Related terms

    * ulterior * ultimatum * ultra * ultra-

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
  • The final or most distant point; the conclusion
  • The greatest extremity; the maximum
  • (uncountable) The sport of ultimate frisbee.

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