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Acknowledgement

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.