• 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.^ OpenBSD is the most secure publicly available operating system in the world that can be used to do useful things.
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  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

Computer science and telecommunications

• Mac OS, an Operating system of Apple's Macintosh written in C (programming_language)
• 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
• .Mac (now MobileMe), a collection of online services and software previously offered by Apple Inc.
• @Mac (now @Me) the email address for signing up for .Mac
• .mac, a file extension for macros in Agilent ChemStation
• Million Multiply and Accumulate Operations per Second (MMACS)

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 along with Tosh voiced by Mel Blanc
• Mac, the alien from the film Mac and Me
• Mac, a character from Apple's "Get A Mac" ad campaign, meant to represent a Macintosh computer, played by Justin Long.
• Mac Gargan: an enemy of Spider-Man.^ There’s more to home computing world than Windows and Mac, sorry.
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  ^ Tunes is an application for playing, downloading, and organizing digital audio and video files and is available for both Mac and Windows-based computers.
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  ^ My friends who own a Mac often say that it is a dead giveaway that writers using phrases like “I love Mac but my problem is…” don’t actually own one.
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  Formerly known as the Scorpion, Currently the third Venom
• 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 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

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

People

• Mac (rapper), rapper with No Limit Records
• Alison Mac, British actress
• Clark McConachy, a snooker player
• Mac Suzuki, a Major League Baseball pitcher

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

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 (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

Non-Profit Organizations

• Malaysian AIDS Council

Other

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• 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.^ The Compensation Committee members whose names appear on the Compensation Committee Report above were committee members during all of fiscal year 2007.
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  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
• Military Armament Corporation, manufacturer of the MAC-10 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
• Big Mac, a signature product of the McDonald's 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
• "Mothers Against Canada" (or M.A.C.) is a fictional organization in the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

See also

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

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1. A computer made by Apple Computer.^ I like Mac, but I don't like Apple's misrepresentation of their OS as being invulnerable; ANY computer system cannot be made invulnerable to invasion as it is an engineering impossibility.
   • Call Me Fishmeal.: Mac OS X Viruses: Put Up or Shut Up (part 1) 31 January 2010 13:33 UTC wilshipley.com [Source type: General]
   
   ^ When you buy a Mac its made buy Apple, almost all p.c computers are made buy hardware assemblers using 3rd party parts from china.
   • 50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple’s Mac OS X ~ Chris Pirillo 28 January 2010 0:22 UTC chris.pirillo.com [Source type: General]
   
   

   I bought a Mac, and the Mac OS came installed.

   • Glenn Derene, “Mac VS. PC” in Popular Mechanics, v 185, n 5, p 86:

     Oddly, the big difference didn't come in our user ratings, where we expected the famously friendly Mac interface to shine.

     Apple's popular commercials have painted the picture in stark terms: There are two types of people, .Mac people and PC people.^ Third: most people who are buying a mac are transitioning from a pc world where people use a right-click instead of a keystroke (right-click more usable and ergonomic?

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     ^ And with Virtualization software like VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop for Mac, some people may wondering why should they still use a PC. .

     • 50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple’s Mac OS X ~ Chris Pirillo 28 January 2010 0:22 UTC chris.pirillo.com [Source type: General]

     
     ^ Im not saying that people who arent digital artists shouldnt get one but macs are better for art than a PC is.

     • 50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple’s Mac OS X ~ Chris Pirillo 28 January 2010 0:22 UTC chris.pirillo.com [Source type: General]

     
     

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2. Mac OS and Mac OS X, the Macintosh operating systems.^ The Company is currently the only authorized maker of hardware using the Mac OS. The Mac OS has a minority market share in the personal computer market, which is dominated by computer makers using competing operating systems, most notably Windows.
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   ^ Posted by: Ashley at January 5, 2008 1:13 AM I just purchased a OS x with Leopard operating system.
   • How do I reset my Mac OS X admin root password? :: Free Tech Support :: Ask Dave Taylor!® 2 February 2010 8:49 UTC www.askdavetaylor.com [Source type: General]
   
   ^ Why do you think that this behavior is somehow just an OS X feature when every other windowed operating system out there behaves like this?
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   • 1991, “Breaking Communications Barriers”, in Compute!, v 13, n 9, pp 28–31:

     Built by Matthew Weed, a blind political science and history major, and Victor Grigorieff, a computer science and psychology major, the system is based on a Macintosh IIfx, although it can run on earlier models, since each .Mac program has a similar interface.^ I now just find that the user interfaces on the Mac for programs are so nice to use, very simple and clean looking.

     • 50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple’s Mac OS X ~ Chris Pirillo 28 January 2010 0:22 UTC chris.pirillo.com [Source type: General]

     
     

   • 1993, “The New Microprocessors Powerchips” in Popular Science, v 243, n 1, p 58:

     Apple, IBM, and Motorola have teamed up to produce this 32-bit chip that will be used in future Apple Macintoshes and IBM PCs. PowerPC systems will run .Mac or Unix programs, and possibly Windows software in the future.^ QuickTime, the Company’s multimedia software for Mac or Windows-based computers, features streaming of live and stored video and audio over the Internet and playback of high-quality audio and video on computers.

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     ^ Many Mac programs have a bad habit of not implementing the busy icon when they are busy (something any Windows user can experience on iTunes).

     • Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS - Smashing Magazine 31 January 2010 13:33 UTC www.smashingmagazine.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     
     ^ Ever notice that there is a huge void in the amount of software available to Macs versus Windows.

     • Mac OS X hacked under 30 minutes - News - Security - ZDNet Australia 28 January 2010 0:22 UTC www.zdnet.com.au [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     
     

   • 1993, “The Newest Appliance” in U.S. News & World Report, v 115, n 21, p 90:

     If you invest the time to learn one Windows or .Mac program, you'll automatically have mastered the basic skills to use hundreds of others.^ You´ll don´t be disturbed by other program windows in the background.

     • Chris Shiflett: Top X List of Mac OS X Annoyances 28 January 2010 0:22 UTC shiflett.org [Source type: General]

     
     ^ What Mac are you using?

     • Chris Shiflett: Top X List of Mac OS X Annoyances 28 January 2010 0:22 UTC shiflett.org [Source type: General]

     
     ^ You'll get used to it with practice..

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   • 2007, “Uninspiring Vista”, in Technology Review, v 110, n 1, pp 72–4:

     As this shift accelerates, finding software that works with a particular operating system will be less of a concern. People will be able to base decisions about which OS to use strictly on merit, and on personal preference. For me, if the choice is between struggling to configure every feature and being able to boot up and get to work, at long last I choose the Mac.

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3. one who uses Apple Mac products.^ My friends who own a Mac often say that it is a dead giveaway that writers using phrases like “I love Mac but my problem is…” don’t actually own one.
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   ^ But for users who really could use less in the hardware power dept, Macs do not hold a candle to a cheap $700 pc.
   • 50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple’s Mac OS X ~ Chris Pirillo 28 January 2010 0:22 UTC chris.pirillo.com [Source type: General]
   
   ^ Several users refer to Mac iLife 08, but I can say that iLife is an outstanding product from Apple as a hole; however, I can’t stand the new iMove.
   • 50 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Windows to Apple’s Mac OS X ~ Chris Pirillo 28 January 2010 0:22 UTC chris.pirillo.com [Source type: General]
   
   

   I don't need your crappy software, I'm a Mac.

Usage notes

• Mac is a trademark.

Hyponyms

• (operating system): Mac OS, Mac OS X

Coordinate terms

• PC, personal computer, home computer, desktop computer, personal workstation, graphic workstation, graphics workstation

Anagrams

• Anagrams of acm
• AMC
• cam, CAM
• CMA
• mca