MAC

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This disambiguation page is about the acronym MAC (written in all caps). See also Mac and Mack.

MAC may refer to:

• MAC (cosmetics), a brand of cosmetics
• MAC (fashion label), (see [1])
• MAC address, the Media Access Control address of a computer networking device
• MAC times, short for "Modification, Access, and Change" times in a computer file
• MAC-unit, a term in computer and digital signal processing for hardware that computes a multiply-accumulate operation
• Macau, ISO 3166-1 country code, Asian Games country code and FIFA country code
• An improper term for a Macintosh computer (properly written as Mac)
• Magnetic Accelerator Cannon a fictional weapon from Halo
• Mandatory access control, a technique to protect and contain computer processes, data, and system devices from misuse
• Maranhão Atlético Clube, a Brazilian football (soccer) club
• Media Access Control, a term in computer networking
• Membrane attack complex, one of the ultimate weapons of the immune system
• Merchant Aircraft Carrier ships
• Message authentication code, in cryptography
• Metropolitan Airports Commission, the operator of airports in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region of Minnesota
• Michigan Aerospace Corporation, a company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
• Michigan Agricultural College, the name of Michigan State University from 1909 to 1925
• Mid air collision, a type of aviation accident
• Mid-American Conference, a U.S. collegiate sports conference
• Middle Atlantic Corporation, a NCAA Division III sports conference
• Midlands Arts Centre, a venue in Birmingham, England
• Migration Authorisation Code in Internet transfer
• Military Airlift Command, the predecessor of the Air Mobility Command of the United States Air Force
• Minimum alveolar concentration, a term used in anaesthesia
• Mobile Air Conditioning
• Money Access Center, an interbank network operating ATMs and POS terminals.
• Morgan Advanced Ceramics, a ceramic manufacturing company.
• Mouvement Autonome Casamançais, a now-defunct political party in Casamance, Senegal
• "Moves, adds and changes", a set of administrative tasks in the plain old telephone service.
• Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru, a Welsh republican organization responsible for a number of bombing incidents between 1963 and 1969
• Multiplexed Analogue Components, a high-definition television transmission standard.
• Multiply-accumulate, a computer arithmetic operation, common in digital signal processor contexts
• Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya, an archaeology museum in Catalonia
• Musical Arts Conference, a marching band competition circuit
• Mycobacterium avium complex, a group of environmental pathogens in the Mycobacterium genus.
• Project MAC, a project known for releasing MACLISP, an old version of the computer programming language LISP