Mac

Mac or MAC most commonly refers to:

• Mac (computer), a family of personal computers made by Apple Inc.
• Mackintosh, a raincoat made of rubberized cloth
• A variant of the word macaroni, mostly used in the name of the dish mac and cheese
• Mac, Gaelic for "son", a prefix to family names often appearing in Gaelic names

Mac or MAC may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

For entertainers, see § People.

For museums, see § Museums and arts centers.

Fictional entities

• Mac (Green Wing), a television character
• Mac (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), a television character
• Mac Gargan, an enemy of Spider-Man
• Mac Foster, a character on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
• Angus "Mac" MacGyver, from the television series MacGyver
• Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie, from the TV series Veronica Mars
• Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie, from the TV series JAG
• Dr. Terrence McAfferty, from Robert Muchamore's CHERUB and Henderson's Boys novel series
• "Mac" McAnnally, in The Dresden Files series
• Randle McMurphy, in the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Mac Taylor, from the TV series CSI: NY
• Mac, a canine character in the television series Clifford the Big Red Dog
• Monster Attack Crew, a fictional pilot squadron in the television series Ultraman Leo
• MAC (Mysterious Alien Creature), the titular character in the 1988 film Mac and Me

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Mac (film), 1992 directed by and starring John Turturro
• Mac (novel), by John MacLean
• Mac, a Sports Beanie Baby cardinal produced by Ty, Inc. in 1999
• MAC Awards, for achievements in cabaret, comedy, and jazz, administered by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs
• Mac the Moose, a public statue in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada; formerly the World's Largest Moose

Business and economics

For businesses, see § Businesses.

• Marginal Abatement Cost, a concept in environmental economics
• Material adverse change, a provision in mergers and acquisitions contracts and venture financing agreements

Organizations

For museums, see § Museums and arts centers.

Businesses

• MAC Cosmetics, a cosmetics brand, stylized as M•A•C
• Mac Para Technology, a Czech aircraft manufacturer
• Macerich, an American real estate investment trust (NYSE stock symbol MAC)
• Manufacture d'armes de Châtellerault, a French state arms manufacturer
• Martin's Air Charter, now Martinair, an airline
• Morgan Advanced Ceramics, a ceramics manufacturing company

Government and military agencies

• Mainland Affairs Council, an agency under the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China
• Medicare Administrative Contractor, a private company contracted to administer Medicare benefits in the U.S.
• Metropolitan Airports Commission, the operator of airports in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area
• Military Affairs Commission in China; see Central Military Commission (People's Republic of China)
• Military Airlift Command, the predecessor of the Air Mobility Command of the United States Air Force
• Municipal Assistance Corporation, created by the State of New York in 1975 to deal with New York City's fiscal crisis

Non-profit organizations

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

Political groups

• Mouvement d'Action Civique, a defunct Belgian far right group
• Mouvement Autonome Casamançais (Casamancian Autonomous Movement), a defunct political party in Casamance, Senegal
• Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, a Welsh organization responsible for several bombing incidents
• Muslims Against Crusades, a UK-based Islamic group noted for burning poppies during the Remembrance Day silence in 2010

Schools

• Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Canada
• McMaster University, in Canada
• Michigan Agricultural College, former name of Michigan State University

Sports organizations

Clubs and teams

• Maranhão Atlético Clube, a Brazilian association football club
• Marília Atlético Clube, a Brazilian association football club
• Missouri Athletic Club, a traditional gentlemen's and athletic club in downtown St. Louis, Missouri
• Multnomah Athletic Club, a private athletic club in Oregon

Conferences

• Macomb Area Conference, a Michigan high school football conference
• Mayflower Athletic Conference, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts
• 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
• Mid-Atlantic Rifle Conference, an NCAA rifle-only conference
• Midwest Athletic Conference, an Ohio high school athletic conference in west-central Ohio
• Middle Atlantic Conferences, an umbrella organization for three NCAA Division III sports conferences
  • Middle Atlantic Conference, one of the three conferences of the above, used to organize competition in some sports
• Mississippi Athletic Conference, a high school sports conference in the Iowa Quad Cities
• Mountain Athletic Conference (NCHSAA), a North Carolina high school athletic conference
• Mountain Athletic Conference (PIAA), a Pennsylvania high school athletic conference

People

Names

• Mac, Gaelic for "son", a prefix to family names often appearing in Irish and Scottish names
• Mac (nickname)
• Mạc (surname), Anglicized surname or Mạc (Vietnamese surname)
• Mạc dynasty, 16th-century rulers in Vietnam

People with the nickname or professional name

• Mac (rapper) (born 1977), American rapper, stage name of McKinley Phipps Jr
• MC Mac, member and musician of So Solid Crew
• Derek McCulloch (1897–1967), British radio broadcaster known as "Uncle Mac"
• Ian McCulloch (singer) (born 1959), commonly referred to as "Mac the Mouth" or just "Mac"
• Stanley McMurtry (born 1936), British cartoonist with the pen name "Mac"

Places

For schools, see § Schools.

Inhabited places

• Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, nicknamed "Fort Mac"
• Macau, a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, ISO 3166 code MAC
• Macedonia (disambiguation), various places

Museums and arts centers

• mac (Birmingham), formerly known as the Midlands Arts Centre, in Birmingham, UK
• Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, UK
• Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya), an archaeology museum in Catalonia, Spain
• Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói), a museum in Niterói, Brazil

Other facilities

• Macomb (Amtrak station), Illinois, United States, Amtrak station code MAC
• UCLA Marina Aquatic Center, a recreational facility in Marina del Rey, California

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• MAC (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen of Mitoxantrone and Ara-C
• Maximum allowable concentration, a concept related to threshold limit value (TLV)
• Membrane attack complex, an immune system function using complement
• Microbiota-accessible carbohydrates, a category of carbohydrates consumed by gut microbes
• Minimum alveolar concentration, a measure used to compare the strengths of anesthetic vapors
• Mitochondrial apoptosis-induced channel, the cytochrome c release pore of apoptotic mitochondria
• Monitored anesthesia care, a form of anesthesia with partial awareness
• Mycobacterium avium complex, a group of environmental pathogens

Computing and telecommunication

• MAC address, or Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA), the OSI layer 2 address of network interfaces
• .mac, a file extension for macros in Agilent ChemStation software
• Mac (computer), a brand of computers and computer operating systems made by Apple Inc.
  • macOS, formerly Mac OS X and OS X, Apple's current operating system for the Macintosh
  • Classic Mac OS, the original operating system for Apple's Macintosh
  • .Mac, now iCloud, a subscription service by Apple
• MAC times, metadata which record times of events associated with a computer file
• Mandatory access control, a type of access control in computer security
• Maximum activate count, a parameter associated with the LPDDR4 memory's TRR feature that mitigates the row hammer effect
• Medium access control (often "Media Access Control"), a sublayer of the 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
• Multiplexed Analogue Components, a proposed satellite television transmission standard
• Multiply–accumulate operation, or multiplier–accumulator, in digital signal processing

Transportation

• Mean aerodynamic chord, a measure of the geometry of an airfoil
• Merchant aircraft carrier, used during World War II by Britain and the Netherlands
• Mid-air collision, a type of aircraft accident

Weapons

• Mac-10 (Military Armament Corporation Model 10, officially the M10), a compact, blowback-operated machine pistol
• Mac-11, a sub-compact version of the Model 10 machine pistol

Other uses in science and technology

• Mission assurance, an engineering process
• MAC (Money Access Card), an ATM (automated teller machine) card

Other uses

• MAC Award, or Hermann Trophy, the highest award in American college soccer
• Mackintosh, a raincoat made of rubberized cloth
• Modern Army Combatives, a hand-to-hand combat training regimen
• Material adequacy condition, a concept in the philosophies of logic and language

See also

• Big Mac (disambiguation)
• Little Mac (disambiguation)
• McIntosh (disambiguation)
• Macaroni
• Macaroni and cheese, or "mac and cheese" in American and Canadian English
• Mach (disambiguation)
• Mack (disambiguation)
• Mak (disambiguation)