ACE

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ace"

Translingual

Symbol

ACE

1. (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport, which serves Lanzarote, Las Palmas.

English

Pronunciation

• (some senses) enPR: ās, IPA^(key): /eɪs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪs

Proper noun

ACE

1. (US, education) Initialism of American Council on Education.
2. (space flight) Initialism of Advanced Composition Explorer, a NASA spacecraft.
3. Initialism of American Cinema Editors.
4. Initialism of Attempto Controlled English.
5. (file format) A proprietary data compression archive file format.

Noun

ACE (countable and uncountable, plural ACEs)

1. (film) A member of American Cinema Editors.
2. (biochemistry, medicine) Initialism of angiotensin converting enzyme.
3. (military, NATO) Initialism of air combat element.
4. (military, USMC) Initialism of aviation combat element.
5. Initialism of analysis and control element.
6. (computing) Initialism of arbitrary code execution.
7. (computing) Initialism of access control entry.
8. (computing) Initialism of ASCII-compatible encoding.
   • 2003, John Yunker, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies‎^[1], New Riders, →ISBN:

     Because the DNS requires that a domain name be in an ACE format, IDNA proposes that client applications, such as a web browser, manage the character conversion internally.

9. (psychology) Initialism of adverse childhood experience.
10. (meteorology) Initialism of accumulated cyclone energy.

Derived terms

angiotensin-converting enzyme

• ACE1 (“angiotensin-converting enzyme 1”)
• ACE2 (“angiotensin-converting enzyme 2”)
• hrsACE2 (“human recombinant soluble angiotensin-converting enzyme 2”)

Anagrams

• AEC, CAE, CEA, Cea, EAC

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as/

Noun

ACE m (plural ACEs)

1. (medicine) acronym of antigène carcino-embryonnaire (“carcinoembryonic antigen”): CEA

Proper noun

ACE f

1. (Canada) acronym of allocation canadienne pour enfants (“Canada Child Benefit”): CCB

German

Etymology

From the vitamins A,C, and E.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː ˈt͡seː ˈʔeː/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

ACE n (strong, genitive ACEs, plural ACEs)

1. initialism of A+C+E

   ACE-Saft

   A fruit juice mixture of orange, carrot, and lemon juice

Italian

Etymology

From the names of vitamins A, C and E, contained in the juice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.t͡ʃe/
• Rhymes: -atʃe
• Hyphenation: À‧CE

Noun

ACE m (uncountable)

1. (cooking) a flavour/flavor of fruit juice, mainly formed by orange, carrot and lemon juice

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.si/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.sɨ/

Noun

ACE m (plural ACEs)

1. (archival science) initialism of arquivo central
   • (Can we date this quote?), “Apresentação”, in Federal University of Paraíba‎^[2], Brazil, archived from the original on 22 August 2026:

     O Arquivo Central (ACE) da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) vinculado ao Gabinete do Reitor, é a unidade responsável por coordenar as atividades de gestão documental e promover a preservação do patrimônio arquivístico da Instituição, contribuindo para a organização, segurança e acesso às informações produzidas e recebidas pela Universidade.

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔajŋ̟˧˧ t͡ɕi˧˨ʔ ʔɛm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɛɲ˧˧ t͡ɕɪj˨˩ʔ ʔɛm˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔan˧˧ cɪj˨˩˨ ʔɛm˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: anh chị em

Pronoun

ACE

1. initialism of anh chị em

Related terms

• ÔBACE