mac
IPA: mˈæk
Root Word: Mac
noun
- (US, informal) Used to address a man whose name is unknown.
- A diminutive of the male given name Max.
- (US, Canada) A diminutive for a person with a surname that starts with "Mac" or "Mc".
- A Macintosh computer (made by Apple Inc.).
- (informal) McMaster University
- (Singapore, slang) McDonald's
- Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”). [A waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth.]
- (Canada, US, slang) Clipping of macaroni. [(uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely, pasta in general.]
- (US military) Acronym of Military Airlift Command, formerly, one of three former divisions of the US airforce, the others being SAC and TAC.
- Acronym of Military Armament Corporation.
- (UN) Initialism of Military Armistice Commission.
- (chemistry) Initialism of maximum allowable concentration, the maximum concentration of a pollutant which is considered harmless to healthy adults during their working hours, assuming they breathe uncontaminated air at all other times.
- (computer security) Initialism of mandatory access control.
- (networking) Initialism of media access control: the portion of Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11 wireless, Bluetooth, FDDI, ATM, and Fibre Channel networks that controls which hardware devices have access to the media over which signals are sent.
- (aviation) Initialism of mean aerodynamic chord.
- (aviation) Initialism of mid-air collision.
- (cryptography) Initialism of message authentication code.
- (military, nautical, aviation, historical) Initialism of merchant aircraft carrier.
- (science fiction) Initialism of magnetic accelerator cannon.
- (UK, telecommunications) Initialism of Migration Authorisation Code.
- (immunology) Initialism of membrane attack complex, a part of the complement system of the innate immune system. [(immunology) A structure, typically formed on the surface of a pathogen cell membrane as a result of the activation of the host's complement system, creating transmembrane channels that disrupt the cell membrane, leading to cell lysis and death.]
- (computing) Initialism of multiply and accumulate, a hardware module found in digital signal processors which performs a multiplication and adds the result of that operation to an accumulator in the same cycle, used extensively in implementations of digital filters, transforms, and codecs.
- (microbiology) Initialism of Mycobacterium avium complex.
- (anesthesiology) Initialism of minimum alveolar concentration.
- (anesthesiology) Initialism of monitored anesthesia care.
Examples of "mac" in Sentences
- Bic Macs are hardly sacrosanct here in the US.
- I am a Mac person and the program is on a Mac.
- An image of a Mac looks like an image of a Mac.
- Does the current version of the page render fine on the mac
- Mac grabs the head and lifts it off the body with a splotch.
- However, the Mac only mindset is well entrenched in the industry.
- A wristwatch was the first wait cursor in early versions of Mac OS.
- Like many of the doctors, Mac often attacks his pomposity and superiority.
- Custom enclosure designs shove 160 Mac minis into a single rackmount tower.
- In Celtic mythology, Maine mac Darthacht was the son of Perdition, or night.