Mac

Mac or MAC may refer to:

Aircraft

• Mean Aerodynamic Chord
• Merchant aircraft carrier, used during World War II by Britain and the Netherlands.
• Metropolitan Airports Commission, the operator of airports in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
• Mid-air collision, a type of aviation accident.
• Military Airlift Command, the predecessor of the Air Mobility Command of the United States Air Force.
• Mandatory Access Control, a method of governing who is allowed to access which files or other objects in a computer system.

Biology

• Membrane attack complex, one of the immune system functions using complement
• Minimum alveolar concentration, a concept used to compare the strengths of anaesthetic vapours
• Mitochondrial apoptosis-induced channel, the cytochrome c release pore of apoptotic mitochondria
• Mycobacterium avium complex, a group of environmental pathogens

Computer science and telecommunications

• MAC address, Media Access Control address or Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA)
• Macintosh, a brand of personal computers and computer operating systems made by Apple Inc.
• Mandatory access control, a type of access control in computer security
• Media Access Control, sublayer of Data Link layer
• Message authentication code, used to authenticate a message in cryptography
• Migration Authorisation Code
• Money Access Card, a type of debit card
• Multiplexed Analogue Components
• Multiply-accumulate
• .Mac, a collection of online services and software offered by Apple Inc.
• .mac, a file extension for macros in Agilent ChemStation
• Mac OS, an Operating system of Apple's Macintosh.

Fictional characters

• Mac, a character in the television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
• Mac, one of the two Goofy Gophers along with Tosh voiced by Mel Blanc
• Mac, a character in the television sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Mac (Green Wing), a character on the British sitcom Green Wing
• MacGyver, a television series
• Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie, a character from the TV series Veronica Mars
• Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie, a character from the TV series JAG
• Mac Taylor, a character from the TV series CSI: NY
• Captain Mac, a character in Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
• Little Mac, a character in the Punch-Out!! video games

Museums

• Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya), an archaeology museum in Catalonia
• Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói), a museum in Niterói, Brazil

People

• Mac (rapper), rapper with No Limit Records
• Alison Mac, British actress

Politics

• Mainland Affairs Council, an agency under the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China
• Military Affairs Commission in PRC: see Central Military Commission (People's Republic of China)
• Mouvement d'Action Civique, a defunct Belgian far right group
• Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, a Welsh organization responsible for a number of bombing incidents
• Casamancian Autonomous Movement (Mouvement Autonome Casamançais), a defunct political party in Casamance, Senegal
• Conservative Action Movement (Movimiento de Acción Conservadora), a political party in Nicaragua
• National Action Movement (Movimento de Acção Nacional), a defunct Portuguese far right group

Sports

• Mid-American Conference, an NCAA Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision) sports conference
• Middle Atlantic Corporation, an NCAA Division III sports conference
• Maranhão Atlético Clube, a Brazilian football (soccer) club
• Marília Atlético Clube, a Brazilian football (soccer) club
• Mountain Athletic Conference (NCHSAA), a North Carolina high school athletic conference
• Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference, a Washington, D.C. area high school athletic league
• Mississippi Athletic Conference, a high school sports conference in the Iowa Quad Cities
• M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, a cricket stadium in India
• Macomb Area Conference, a Michigan high school football conference

Non-Profit Organizations

• Malaysian AIDS Council

Other

• Mac, Gaelic for "son", a prefix to family names often appearing in Irish and Scottish names
• Mac (novel), by John MacLean
• Mac, member and musician of So Solid Crew
• mac (Birmingham), formerly known as the Midlands Arts Centre, in Birmingham, UK
• Manufacture d'armes de Châtellerault, French state arms manufacture
• McMaster University in Canada, informally known as Mac
• Mac (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby cardinal produced by Ty, Inc. in 1999
• Macaroni, a type of pasta
• Mackintosh, a raincoat
• Fleetwood Mac, an influential rock group
• Mac (or Big Mac), nickname for the Oklahoma State Penitentiary located in McAlester, Oklahoma
• Make-up Art Cosmetics, better known to most as M•A•C
• Military Armament Corporation, manufacturer of the MAC-10 submachine gun
• Macomb (Amtrak station), Illinois, United States; Amtrak station code: MAC
• Magnetic accelerator cannons, fictional coilguns used by factions of Halo in the Halo video game series
• Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs
• Material adverse change
• Maximum acceptable/allowable concentration or Threshold Limit Value
• McDonald's, a fast food restaurant chain
• Michigan Agricultural College, the former name of Michigan State University
• Modern Army Combatives, hand-to-hand combat training
• Morgan Advanced Ceramics, a ceramic manufacturing company
• Musical Arts Conference, a marching band competition circuit
• Mount Aloysius College, a Catholic college in central Pennsylvania
• UCLA Marina Aquatic Center, located in Marina del Rey, California
• The Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Canada
• MAC or "Mothers Against Canada" is a fictional organization created by Sheila Broflovski in the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

See also

• Mack (disambiguation)
• Mach (disambiguation)
• Mak (disambiguation)
• Mark (disambiguation)

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