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Mac or MAC may refer to:
[edit] Aviation
- Martin's Air Charter, now Martinair
- 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Business and Economics
- Manufacture d'armes de Châtellerault, French state arms manufacture
- Marginal Abatement Cost, a concept in environmental economics
- Make-up Art Cosmetics, cosmetics brand, better known as M•A•C
- Material adverse change
- Maximum acceptable/allowable concentration or Threshold Limit Value
- Money Access Card, a type of debit card
- Morgan Advanced Ceramics, a ceramic manufacturing company
[edit] Computing and telecommunications
- MAC address, Media Access Control address or Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA)
- Media Access Control, sublayer of Data Link layer
- Mandatory access control, a type of access control in computer security
- Message authentication code, used to authenticate a message in cryptography
- Mac OS, an operating system of Apple's Macintosh
- Macintosh, a brand of personal computers and computer operating systems made by Apple Inc.
- Migration Authorisation Code, a unique code used when switching between DSL ISPs in the UK.
- Mission Assurance Category, a designation used in the United States Department of Defense. It reflects the importance of an information system for the successful completion of a DoD mission, especially in regard to availability and integrity.
- Multiplexed Analogue Components
- .mac, a file extension for macros in Agilent ChemStation
- .Mac, a former name of MobileMe
- Multiply–accumulate
[edit] Fictional characters
- Mac (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), a character on the FX television sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
- Mac, a character in the television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Mac, one of the two Goofy Gophers
- Mac, the alien from the film Mac and Me
- Mac, a character from Apple's "Get A Mac" ad campaign, representing a Macintosh computer
- Mac Gargan, an enemy of Spider-Man
- Mac (Green Wing), a character on the British sitcom Green Wing
- Mac, a character in the pixar movie Cars
- 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
- Dr. McAfferty, a character from the CHERUB series of young adult spy novels
[edit] Museums
- Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya), an archaeology museum in Catalonia
- Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesi), a museum in Ankara, Turkey
- Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói), a museum in Niterói, Brazil
- Le Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art
[edit] People
- Mac (rapper), rapper formerly signed to No Limit Records
- Mac, member and musician of So Solid Crew
- Mac Dre, rapper from Vallejo, California
- A nickname for Mark McGwire, a former Major League Baseball player for the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals
- Mac Mall, rapper from Vallejo, California
- Alison Mac, British actress
- Clark McConachy, a snooker player
- Mac Suzuki, a Major League Baseball pitcher
- Mạc (surname), a Vietnamese surname
- Stanley McMurtry, British cartoonist who signs his work "Mac"
- Bernie Mac, a comedian from the United States of America
- Ian McCulloch (singer), lead singer of English band Echo & The Bunnymen, also known as 'Mac'
- Mac King, an American comedy magician
[edit] 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
- Municipal Assistance Corporation, created by the State of New York in 1975 to deal with New York City's fiscal crisis
- Muslims Against Crusades, a UK based Islamic group noted for burning poppies during the Remembrance Day silence in 2010
[edit] Sports
- Mid-American Conference, an NCAA Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision) sports conference
- Middle Atlantic Conferences, 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
[edit] Non-profit organizations
- Malaysian AIDS Council
- mac (Birmingham), formerly known as the Midlands Arts Centre, in Birmingham, UK
[edit] Other
- Mac-10 (Military Armament Corporation Model 10, officially the M10), a highly compact, blowback operated machine pistol
- Mac-11 (Military Armament Corporation Model 11), a sub-compact version of the Model 10 machine pistol
- Mackintosh A raincoat made of rubberized cloth. E.g. Jet-Black Mac
- Mac, Gaelic for "son", a prefix to family names often appearing in Irish and Scottish names
- Mac (novel), by John MacLean
- 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
- Fleetwood Mac, an influential rock group
- Mac (or Big Mac), nickname for the Oklahoma State Penitentiary located in McAlester, Oklahoma
- 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
- Michigan Agricultural College, the former name of Michigan State University
- Modern Army Combatives, hand-to-hand combat training
- Modern adult contemporary, a radio format
- Monitored anæsthesia care
- 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
- The Monster Attack Crew, a fictional pilot squadron in Ultraman Leo
[edit] See also
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