A character transmitted by a receiver that acknowledges that some particular reception took place.
Acknowledge character. A handshake character that indicates that a message was received.
Code that communicates that a system is ready to receive data from a remote transmitting station, or code that acknowledges the error-free transmission of data.
Acknowledged. Notification sent from one network device to another to acknowledge that some event occurred (for example, the receipt of a message).
The sequence action that indicates recognition of a new alarm.
1. Acknowledge. Used to confirm one's presence. An appropriate response to ping. 2. When one computer sends a block of data to another over a network, the second computer sends an acknowledgment code back to indicate that the transfer was successful. If there were errors detected in the transmission, the second computer would send a negative acknowledgment (NAK).
A flag set in a packet to indicate to the sender that the previous packet sent was accepted correctly by the receiver without errors, or that the receiver is now ready to accept a transmission
ACKnowledge – A transmission control character transmitted by the receiving station as an affirmative response to the sending station.
An acknowledgement (approval) from an authorized point of contact for a domain name record, contact record, or host record that a requested modification should be completed. When a modification request is received from a source that is not an authorized contact, the request will be rejected and a message will be sent to the listed contacts asking them to ACK (approve) or NAK (disapprove) the modification. [see also: NAK (No Acknowledgement), Contact/Agent, Modification
n. Short for acknowledgment. A message sent by the receiving unit to the sending station or computer indicating either that the unit is ready to receive transmission or that a transmission was received without error. Compare NAK.
Acknowledgement. A message that acknowledges the reception of a transmitted packet. ACKs can be separate packets or piggybacked on reverse traffic packets.
A DTMF "A" (acknowledge) signal from the CPE or a DTMF "D" signal followed by a DTMF 1 through 5 sent as part of the FSK signal.
A transmission control character transmitted by a station as an affirmative response to the station with which a connection has been set up. An acknowledge character may also be used as an accuracy control character.
Handshake packet indicating a positive acknowledgement between devices or a host and device on the USB bus.
A positive acknowledgment control character. This character is exchanged between system components when data has been received without error. The control character is used as an affirmative response ... more
Transmission control character transmitted by a receiving device as an affirmative response to a sending device.
An ACK is an abbreviation for a positive acknowledgment, sent by S.W.I.F.T. to the sender of a message. It indicates S.W.I.F.T.'s acceptance of a message for onward transmission to addressee. An ACK does not indicate that the message has been received by the addressee. NACK, NCK
A message sent by a receiver to positively acknowledge the receipt of an agreed amount of data.
ACK is short for acknowledgment. In data communications a node will send an ACK to another node to indicate a transmitted frame or packet has been received. Connection-oriented protocols use acknowledgments.
Acknowledgment. A type of message sent to indicate that a block of data arrived at its destination without error.
ACKnowledgment. A message sent by a receiving station to acknowledge correct receipt of a transmission. See also NAK.
Acknowledge. When one computer sends out a signal, usually a block of data to another computer over a network, the second computer sends back an acknowledgment. If second computer detected any errors it would send them back a negative acknowledgment.
The acknowledgment message sent by SWIFT signifying that a message has been successfully received and accepted for further transmission to a specified addressee.
(Acknowledgement)- acknowledgement receipt - receipt. Part of a protocol for data transmission. It indicates the successful transmission of data. The word is also used loosely to indicate "OK, understood" in Emails and Chats".
In computing, an ACK (also known as an acknowledgment code) is a signal passed between communicating processes or computers to signify acknowledgement, or receipt of response, as part of a communications protocol. For instance, ACK packets are used in the Transmission Control Protocol to acknowledge the receipt of SYN packets when establishing a connection, data packets while a connection is being used, and FIN packets when terminating a connection.