acknowledgment
2
3.9
- noun
- /əkˈnɑːlɪdʒmənt/
- Specialized
:
acuse de recibo
- The standard means is via acknowledgment.
It's going to look for missing packets, it's going to send acknowledgements, it's going to do flow control, it's going to do congestion control.
- It's going to look for missing packets, it's going to send acknowledgements, it's going to do flow control, it's going to do congestion control.
Examples
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A simple acknowledgment protocol allows timing flexibility within each core.
Academic text (1998) -
For instance, nanomachines can just transmit whenever they have some information ready, and then they just wait for an acknowledgment.
Academic text (2011) -
Did Engessa get any kind of acknowledgment of his signal?
Fiction book (1993) -
No end-to-end acknowledgment is ever made, and neither is it really necessary.
Blog text (6) -
Finally, because of its speed and immediate acknowledgment capabilities, EDI can enhance the service provided to customers.
Academic text (1990) -
Acknowledgment arrived no more than forty-five minutes after he'd sent off the models.
Fiction book (1999) -
The seller then manually keys the check information into its receivable system, applies the amount, and sends an acknowledgment.
Academic text (1990) -
The acknowledgment must be received within 25 mus; otherwise, the transmitter may detect a time-out error.
Academic text (1996) -
When the data packet is successfully received, the server sends an acknowledgment to confirm delivery.
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The communication protocol requires an automatic acknowledgment each time a message is received.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
acknowledgment = acknowledge (transparent) = acknowledge + ment
Standard nominalization of a verb; in computing it denotes the confirmation/action of acknowledging receipt.
Etymology
Acknowledgment comes from the same root as knowledge ('to know'), and in computing it became the short signal that says 'I know I received your message'. So a technical acknowledgment is a confirmation that the data arrived.