Mace

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Mace can refer to:

• Mace (club), a weapon with a heavy head on a solid shaft used to bludgeon opponents
• Mace (company), a construction firm in the UK
• Mace (measurement), an English term for a traditional Chinese measurement of weight
• Mace (spice), a cooking spice obtained from dried covering of the nutmeg fruit seed.
• Mace (spray), a brand of tear gas, often used by police
• Mace (store), a convenience store chain in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Places

• Macé, a commune of Normandy, France
  • Hill 262 in Normandy, physical feature known as The Mace during World War II
• Mace, Indiana, a small town in the United States

Other uses

• Ceremonial mace, an ornamented mace used in civic ceremonies
• In a debate, competitions can be named The Mace after the ceremonial mace used in parliaments
• Mace: The Dark Age, a fighting game for arcades and the Nintendo 64
• Mace Windu, a character in the Star Wars movies
• MGM-13 Mace, a U.S. tactical surface-to-surface missile

MACE (acronym)

• MACE, the Media Archive for Central England
• MACE (codec), (Macintosh Audio Compression and Expansion) an audio encoding system
• Mar Athanasius College of Engineering (MACE), an Indian engineering college
• Malone antegrade continence enema; see Mitrofanoff appendicovesicostomy
• MACE (gaming convention), Mid-Atlantic Convention Expo gaming convention
• Metropolitan Architectural Consortium for Education. See Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme (CLASP)

[edit] See also

• Mase (pronounced "mace"), an American rapper