NAK

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  NAK /nak/ interj. [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0010101] 1. On-line joke
     answer to {ACK}?: "I'm not here." 2. On-line answer to a request for
     chat: "I'm not available." 3. Used to politely interrupt someone to tell
     them you don't understand their point or that they have suddenly stopped
     making sense. See {ACK}, sense 3. "And then, after we recode the project
     in COBOL...." "Nak, Nak, Nak! I thought I heard you say COBOL!" 4. A


     negative answer. "OK if I boot the server?" "NAK!"
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  NAK
       
          {Negative Acknowledgement}