Acme vs Ultimate - What's the difference?
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The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
* (rfdate), (Alexander Pope)
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(medicine) The crisis or height of a disease.
Mature age; full bloom of life.
Final; last in a series.
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(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
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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
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
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.
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 very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry.
- The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy.
- (Ben Jonson)
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English
Adjective
(wikipedia ultimate) (-)- 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.
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
- an ultimate constituent of matter