Mac
Mac or MAC most commonly refers to:
- Mac, Gaelic for "son", a prefix to family names often appearing in Gaelic names
- Mackintosh, a raincoat made of rubberized cloth
- Macintosh, a brand of computers and operating systems made by Apple Inc.
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Mac or MAC may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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
- Marginal Abatement Cost, a concept in environmental economics
- Material adverse change, a provision in mergers and acquisitions contracts and venture financing agreements
Organizations
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
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
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
- Macintosh, 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
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)
- Macaroni and cheese, or "mac and cheese" in American and Canadian English
- Mach (disambiguation)
- Mack (disambiguation)
- Mak (disambiguation)
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