Mac

MAC has several meanings, including:

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• Multiplexed Analogue Components (TV transmission)
• MAC (cosmetics)
• Magnetic Accelerator Cannon in the Halo universe.
• Media Access Control, in computer networks. See also MAC address. This meaning is occasionally rendered as "Machine Access Code".
• Mammalian artificial chromosome
• mandatory access control
• Maximum allowable concentration of toxins, e.g. in food or as reference in environmental remediation
• Mean Aerodynamic Chord
• Merchant Aircraft Carrier ships
• Message authentication code, in cryptography
• Metropolitan Airports Commission, operator of airports in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region of Minnesota
• Mid-American Conference, US collegiate sports conference
• Middle Atlantic Conference, US collegiate sports conference, also its parent group, the Middle Atlantic Corporation
• The Midlands Arts Centre, a venue in Birmingham, England
• Military Airlift Command, the predecessor of the Air Mobility Command of the United States Air Force
• Minimum alveolar concentration (Anaesthesia)
• Michigan Agricultural College, usually written "M.A.C.", was the name of Michigan State University from 1909 to 1925.
• Multiply-accumulate, especially in digital signal processor contexts
• MAC times in a computer file system are times of last modification, access, and change of a file.
• Michigan Aerospace Corporation, a company in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• Moves, Adds and Changes - System administration tasks related to a telephone system. Sometimes referred to as MACD (moves, adds, changes, and disconnects).
• Mobile Advisory Council
• The Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya)
• Casamancian Autonomous Movement (Mouvement Autonome Casamançais, a now-defunct political party in Casamance, Senegal)
• Project MAC, which is most famously known for MACLISP, an old version of the computer programming language LISP

See also: Mac.

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