Mac

Mac or MAC may refer to:

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

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

Business and economics

• Make-up Art Cosmetics, cosmetics brand, better known as M•A•C
• Manufacture d'armes de Châtellerault, French state arms manufacture
• Marginal Abatement Cost, a concept in environmental economics
• Material adverse change
• Maximum Acceptable/allowable Concentration, see threshold limit value
• Mitutoyo America Corporation
• Money Access Card, a type of debit card
• Morgan Advanced Ceramics, a ceramic manufacturing company

Computing and telecommunications

• .mac, a file extension for macros in Agilent ChemStation
• .Mac, a former name of MobileMe
• MAC address, Media Access Control address or Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA)
• Mac OS, an operating system of Apple's Macintosh
• MAC times, file system metadata which record when an object was last "modified" (contents), "accessed" (read), and "changed" (permissions) (the last one varies between operating systems; for instance, Unix/Linux tracks "change", while Windows tracks "creation" instead)
• 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, a unique code used when switching between DSL Internet service providers in the UK
• Mission Assurance Category, a designation used in the United States Department of Defense, reflecting the importance of an information system for the successful completion of a DoD mission, especially in regard to availability and integrity
• Multiplexed Analogue Components
• Multiply–accumulate or Multiplier–accumulator

Fictional characters

• Mac, a character in the pixar movie Cars
• Captain Mac, a character in Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
• Mac, a character in the television series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
• Mac, a character from Apple's "Get A Mac" ad campaign, representing a Macintosh computer
• Mac, one of the two Goofy Gophers
• Mac (Green Wing), a character on the British sitcom Green Wing
• Mac (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), a character on the FX television sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Mac, the alien from the film Mac and Me
• Little Mac, a character in the Punch-Out!! video games

• Mac Gargan, an enemy of Spider-Man
• Mac Taylor, a character from the TV series CSI: NY

• Dr. McAfferty, a character from the CHERUB series of young adult spy novels
• 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" McAnally a bartender in the Dresden_files

Museums

• Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya), an archaeology museum in Catalonia
• Le Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art
• 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

People

• Mac, nickname of Clark McConachy, a snooker player
• 'Mac', nickname of Ian McCulloch (singer), lead singer of English band Echo & The Bunnymen
• Mac, a nickname for Mark McGwire, a former Major League Baseball player for the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals
• "Mac", nom de plume of Stanley McMurtry, British cartoonist
• Mac (rapper), rapper formerly signed to No Limit Records
• Mac, member and musician of So Solid Crew
• Mạc (surname), a Vietnamese surname
• "Mac" can also be used as a nickname for Malcolm
• Alison Mac, British actress
• Bernie Mac, a comedian from the United States of America
• Mac Dre, rapper from Vallejo, California
• Mac King, an American comedy magician
• Mac Mall, rapper from Vallejo, California
• Mac Suzuki, a Major League Baseball pitcher
• "Uncle Mac", Derek McCulloch, British radio broadcaster

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 Autonome Casamançais (Casamancian Autonomous Movement), a defunct political party in Casamance, Senegal
• Mouvement d'Action Civique, a defunct Belgian far right group
• Movimento de Acção Nacional (National Action Movement), a defunct Portuguese far right group
• Movimiento de Acción Conservadora (Conservative Action Movement), a political party in Nicaragua
• Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, a Welsh organization responsible for a number of bombing incidents
• 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

Sports

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

Non-profit organizations

• mac (Birmingham), formerly known as the Midlands Arts Centre, in Birmingham, UK
• Malaysian AIDS Council

Other

• Mac, Gaelic for "son", a prefix to family names often appearing in Irish and Scottish names
• MAC, Amtrak station code of Macomb (Amtrak station), Illinois, United States
• Mac (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby cardinal produced by Ty, Inc. in 1999
• Mac (novel), by John MacLean
• Mac (or Big Mac), nickname for the Oklahoma State Penitentiary located in McAlester, Oklahoma
• Mac, informal name of McMaster University in Canada
• 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
• Fleetwood Mac, an influential rock group
• Macaroni, a type of pasta
• The Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Canada
• Mackintosh, a raincoat made of rubberized cloth (e.g. Jet-Black 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 adult contemporary, a radio format
• Modern Army Combatives, hand-to-hand combat training
• Monitored anesthesia care, a form of anesthesia with partial awareness
• Monster Attack Crew, a fictional pilot squadron in Ultraman Leo
• Mount Aloysius College, a Catholic college in central Pennsylvania
• Musical Arts Conference, a marching band competition circuit
• UCLA Marina Aquatic Center, located in Marina del Rey, California
• Big Mac, a burger at McDonald's

See also

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