Mac
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Mac or MAC may refer to:
[edit] 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
[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] 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
[edit] 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 "Mac" 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Politics
- Mainland Affairs Council, an agency under the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China
- Military Affairs Commisson 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
[edit] 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, 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] Other
- Mac (rapper), rapper with No Limit Records
- 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
- MAC-10, a 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
[edit] See also
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