Other forms: acknowledgements
An acknowledgement is the admitting that something is so, or thanks given. An acknowledgement of the problem, in acknowledgement of, the acknowledgements page.
In a book the acknowledgements are where the author thanks everybody, and it is the first page many readers turn to. It is also spelled acknowledgment without the middle e, which is commoner in America.
1nounacknowledgementThe admitting that something is so, or thanks given.
“He nodded in acknowledgement when I waved at him across the room.”
acknowledgement is an admission.
Also accepted in games: acknowledgment
acknowledgment comes from acknowledge + -ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA