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He first called for the creation of a world-wide currency, to be called "acmetal" _ a combination of "acme," a Greek word meaning the peak or the best, and "capital" _ in an article published last month.

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  1. noun The highest point, as of achievement or development: reached the acme of her career. See Synonyms at summit.

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  • It was during this last contest that the violence and virulence of party reached its acme, and pervaded every family, creating animosities which neither time nor reflection ever healed CHAPTER X. INDIAN TREATIES AND DIFFICULTIES. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
  • In fact, it is, in some ways, the very REVERSE of brain-power: it might be called the acme of stupidity. —  Lawrence - Kangaroo
  • He first called for the creation of a world-wide currency, to be called "acmetal" _ a combination of "acme," a Greek word meaning the peak or the best, and "capital" _ in an article published last month. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Mr Nazarbayev's coining of "acmetal" combines the Greek word "acme," meaning peak or best, and "capital." —  Aftermath News
  • To be born obscure and to die famous has been described as the acme of human felicity. —  The Life of Froude
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  1. Greek akmē; see ak- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek ἀκμἠ, edge, point, the highest point, the prime, crisis; akin to ἀκή, point, ἀκίς, point, Latin acus, needle, acer, sharp, etc.: see acid.
 

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