Acknowledgment
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Acknowledgment may refer to:
  • Acknowledgment (creative arts)
    Acknowledgment (creative arts)
    In the creative arts and scientific literature, an acknowledgment is an expression of gratitude for assistance in creating a literary or artistic work....

     (and scientific literature and writing), a statement of gratitude for assistance in producing a work
    • Acknowledgment index
      Acknowledgment index
      An acknowledgment index is a method for indexing and analyzing acknowledgements in the scientific literature and, thus, quantifies the impact of acknowledgments. Typically, a scholarly article has a section where the authors acknowledge entities such as funding, technical staff, colleagues, etc....

      , an experimental method for automatically analyzing acknowledgements in the scientific literature
  • Acknowledgment (law)
    Acknowledgment (law)
    In law, an acknowledgment is a declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity, such as the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer...

    , a declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity
    • Service of process
      Service of process
      Service of process is the procedure employed to give legal notice to a person of a court or administrative body's exercise of its jurisdiction over that person so as to enable that person to respond to the proceeding before the court, body or other tribunal...

      , Acknowledgment of service
  • Acknowledgement of receipt
    Acknowledgement of receipt
    Acknowledgment of receipt Acknowledgment of receipt Acknowledgment of receipt (equivalent terms include avis de réception (UPU term), Aviso de Recibo, advice of receipt, advice of delivery (UK and much of the Commonwealth), return receipt requested/required/wanted/demanded (US), Rückschein...

    , a postal service


Telecommunication
  • Acknowledgement (data networks)
    Acknowledgement (data networks)
    In data networking, an acknowledgment is a signal passed between communicating processes or computers to signify acknowledgment, or receipt of response, as part of a communications protocol...

    , a signal used to indicate acknowledgement, specifically:
    • ACK, a flag used in the Transmission Control Protocol
      Transmission Control Protocol
      The Transmission Control Protocol is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet Protocol , and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred to as TCP/IP...

       (TCP) to acknowledge receipt of a packet
    • Acknowledge character
      Acknowledge character
      In telecommunications, an acknowledge character is a transmission control character transmitted by the receiving station as an acknowledgement, i.e...

      , an ASCII control character
    • Negative-acknowledge character
      Negative-acknowledge character
      * In telecommunications, a negative-acknowledge character is a transmission control character sent by a station as a negative response to the station with which the connection has been set up....

      , an ASCII control character

See also

  • ACK (disambiguation)
  • Credit (creative arts)
    Credit (creative arts)
    In general, the term credit in the artistic or intellectual sense refers to an acknowledgement of those who contributed to a work, whether through ideas or in a more direct sense.-Credit in the arts:...

    , acknowledgment given to someone in the creative arts
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