Mac

Contents 1 Aviation 2 Business and Economics 3 Computing and telecommunications 4 Fictional characters 5 Museums 6 People 7 Politics 8 Sports 9 Non-profit organizations 10 Other 11 See also

Mac or MAC may refer to:

Aviation

• Martin's Air Charter, now Martinair
• 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. 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.

Business and Economics

• Manufacture d'armes de Châtellerault, French state arms manufacture
• Marginal Abatement Cost, a concept in environmental economics
• Make-up Art Cosmetics, cosmetics brand, better known as M•A•C
• Material adverse change
• Maximum acceptable/allowable concentration or Threshold Limit Value
• Money Access Card, a type of debit card
• Morgan Advanced Ceramics, a ceramic manufacturing company

Computing and telecommunications

• MAC address, Media Access Control address or Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA)
• Media Access Control, sublayer of Data Link layer
• Mandatory access control, a type of access control in computer security
• Message authentication code, used to authenticate a message in cryptography
• Mac OS, an operating system of Apple's Macintosh
• Macintosh, a brand of personal computers and computer operating systems made by Apple Inc.
• Migration Authorisation Code, a unique code used when switching between DSL ISPs in the UK.
• Mission Assurance Category, a designation used in the United States Department of Defense. It reflects the importance of an information system for the successful completion of a DoD mission, especially in regard to availability and integrity.
• Multiplexed Analogue Components
• .mac, a file extension for macros in Agilent ChemStation
• .Mac, a former name of MobileMe
• Multiply–accumulate

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
• Mac, the alien from the film Mac and Me
• Mac, a character from Apple's "Get A Mac" ad campaign, representing a Macintosh computer
• Mac Gargan, an enemy of Spider-Man
• Mac (Green Wing), a character on the British sitcom Green Wing
• Mac, a character in the pixar movie Cars
• 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 of young adult spy novels

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
• Le Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art

People

• Mac (rapper), rapper formerly signed to No Limit Records
• Mac, member and musician of So Solid Crew
• Mac Dre, rapper from Vallejo, California
• A nickname for Mark McGwire, a former Major League Baseball player for the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals
• Mac Mall, rapper from Vallejo, California
• Alison Mac, British actress
• Clark McConachy, a snooker player
• Mac Suzuki, a Major League Baseball pitcher
• Mạc (surname), a Vietnamese surname
• Stanley McMurtry, British cartoonist who signs his work "Mac"
• Bernie Mac, a comedian from the United States of America
• Ian McCulloch (singer), lead singer of English band Echo & The Bunnymen, also known as 'Mac'
• Mac King, an American comedy magician

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
• Municipal Assistance Corporation, created by the State of New York in 1975 to deal with New York City's fiscal crisis
• Muslims Against Crusades, a UK based Islamic group noted for burning poppies during the Remembrance Day silence in 2010

Sports

• Mid-American Conference, an NCAA Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision) sports conference
• Middle Atlantic Conferences, 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
• mac (Birmingham), formerly known as the Midlands Arts Centre, in Birmingham, UK

Other

• Mac-10 (Military Armament Corporation Model 10, officially the M10), a highly compact, blowback operated machine pistol
• Mac-11 (Military Armament Corporation Model 11), a sub-compact version of the Model 10 machine pistol
• Mackintosh A raincoat made of rubberized cloth. E.g. Jet-Black Mac
• Mac, Gaelic for "son", a prefix to family names often appearing in Irish and Scottish names
• Mac (novel), by John MacLean
• McMaster University in Canada, informally known as Mac
• Mac (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby cardinal produced by Ty, Inc. in 1999
• Macaroni, a type of pasta
• Fleetwood Mac, an influential rock group
• Mac (or Big Mac), nickname for the Oklahoma State Penitentiary located in McAlester, Oklahoma
• 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
• Michigan Agricultural College, the former name of Michigan State University
• Modern Army Combatives, hand-to-hand combat training
• Modern adult contemporary, a radio format
• 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
• The Monster Attack Crew, a fictional pilot squadron in Ultraman Leo

See also

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

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