Mic or MIC may refer to: *

Microphone A microphone, colloquially called a mic or mike (), is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, hearing aids, public address systems for concert halls and public ...

, an acoustic transducer

Places

Miami Intermodal Center Miami Intermodal Center (MIC) is an intermodal rapid transit, commuter rail, intercity rail, local bus, and intercity bus transportation hub in Miami-Dade County, Florida, just outside the Miami city limits near the Grapeland Heights neighbo ...

, a mega-transportation hub in Miami, Florida * Microscopium, a constellation

People

Mic (name) Mic or Mik is a given name, nickname, and surname. It may refer to: People with the given name * Mic Conway Mic Conway (born 15 February 1951) is an Australian vocalist and with his brother, Jim Conway, was a co-founder of the 1970s humour, ...

, numerous people

Arts, entertainment, and media

M.I.C. (band) M.I.C. (MIC男团) is a five-member Chinese boy band, which started in 2006 and released a debut EP in October 2010. The band has won some of the most important Asian entertainment business awards, including the Top Chinese Music Awards, Shangha ...

, a Chinese band formed by Taihe Rye Music *

Mic (media company) Mic is an American internet and media company based in New York City that caters to millennials. Originally known as PolicyMic, it rose to prominence after its on-the-ground coverage of the Tunisian Revolution in 2011. In April 2014, the comp ...

, an American digital company specializing in news and entertainment for millennials * Mic, an abbreviation for referencing the '' Book of Micah'' * ''

Made in Chelsea ''Made in Chelsea'' (abbreviated ''MIC'') is a British structured-reality television series broadcast by E4. ''Made in Chelsea'' chronicles the lives of affluent young people in the West London and South West areas of Belgravia, King's Road, C ...

'', a television series

Organizations

Business

Metal Improvement Company Metal Improvement Company LLC (MIC), a business unit of the Surface Technologies Division of Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW), is a company specializing in metal surface treatments. MIC provides multiple technical services for the metal t ...

, a company specializing in metal surface treatments *

Merida Industry Co., Ltd. Merida Industry Co., Ltd (MIC; ) is a Taiwan-based company with R&D headquarters in Germany that designs, manufactures and markets bicycles globally in over 77 countries. Founded in 1972 by Ike Tseng (1932–2012), the company designs and manufac ...

, a bicycle manufacturing company in Taiwan * Military Industries Corporation (Saudi Arabia), the main armament industry for the Saudi military *

Military Industry Corporation The Military Industry Corporation is the state-run defense corporation of Sudan. It is responsible for the production of a wide range of defense equipment, such as munitions, firearms, artillery etc. History The MIC was established by national d ...

, the main armament industry for the Sudanese military *

Myanmar Investment Commission The Myanmar Investment Commission ( my, မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံမှု ကော်မရှင်, abbreviated MIC) is a government-appointed body under the Ministry of Inv ...

, a government-appointed body *

Mortgage investment corporation Requires updating to reflect the current Income Tax Act and the growth of MICs that trade on the TSX. A mortgage investment corporation or MIC is an investment and lending company designed specifically for mortgage lending (primarily residential ...

, a Canadian investment and lending company *

Motorcycle Industry Council The Motorcycle Industry Council, or MIC, is a not-for-profit, national trade association representing manufacturers and distributors of motorcycles, scooters, motorcycle/ATV parts and accessories and members of allied trades in the United States ...

, an American non-profit trade association *

MIC (organization) MIC Group is a Moscow-based construction organization comprising property development, construction and real estate companies. It specializes mainly in housing construction. History Founded in 1999 as a real estate company, "Moskovskiy Ipo ...

, a Russian construction organization

Government and politics

Malaysian Indian Congress The Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC; ta, மலேசிய இந்திய காங்கிரஸ், Malēciya Intiya Kāṅkiras; formerly known as Malayan Indian Congress) is a Malaysian political party. It is one of the founding membe ...

, a Malaysian political party *

Military–industrial complex The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy. A driving factor behind the r ...

, the relationship between a nation's military forces, its arms industry, and government * Military Intelligence Corps (Sri Lanka), a Sri Lankan military corp that is responsible for gathering, analyzing, and distributing military intelligence *

Military Intelligence Corps (United States Army) The Military Intelligence Corps is the Military intelligence, intelligence branch of the United States Army. The primary mission of military intelligence in the United States Army is to provide timely, relevant, accurate, and synchronized inte ...

, the intelligence branch of the United States Army, responsible for gathering, analyzing, and distributing military intelligence * Ministry of Information and Communication (South Korea), a government agency * Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, a Japanese government agency *

Minnesota International Center Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to i ...

, a foreign policy and strategy think tank

Other organizations

, a media company focused on news for millennials *

Marians of the Immaculate Conception The Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary ( la, Congregatio Clericorum Marianorum ab Immaculata Conceptionis Beatissimae Virginis Mariae) is a Catholic male clerical religious congregation fou ...

, a Roman Catholic clerical congregation * Mary Immaculate College, a college in Limerick, Ireland * Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference, a high school athletic conference in Indiana *

Multan Institute of Cardiology Multan Institute of Cardiology (MIC), is a hospital located in Multan city in Pakistan. It was established by Nawaz Sharif, the former chief minister of Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab province, in 2016. History A project for the establishment of ...

, Pakistan

Science and medicine

Major immunogene complex The Major immunogene complex (MIC) is a gene sequence containing loci coding for antigens on lymphocyte surface (Ia) histocompatibility (H) antigens, products of immune responses, and components system proteins. The genes that code for immuno ...

, gene complex coding immune response *

Maximal information coefficient In statistics, the maximal information coefficient (MIC) is a measure of the strength of the linear or non-linear association between two variables ''X'' and ''Y''. The MIC belongs to the maximal information-based nonparametric exploration ( ...

, a statistical measure of association between variables * Medical image computing, an interdisciplinary field *

Metal-induced crystallization Metal-induced crystallization (MIC) is a method by which amorphous carbon (a-C), amorphous silicon (a-Si), amorphous oxides and amorphous germanium (a-Ge) can be turned into their polycrystalline phases at relatively low temperatures. In the te ...

, a method for turning amorphous silicon into polycrystalline silicon *

Metastable intermolecular composite Nano-thermite or super-thermite is a metastable intermolecular composite (MIC) characterized by a particle size of its main constituents, a metal and a metal oxide, under 100 nanometers. This allows for high and customizable reaction rates. Nano-th ...

, a type of reactive material in explosives research * Methyl isocyanate, a chemical compound used in pesticides *

Microbial corrosion Microbial corrosion, also called microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC), microbially induced corrosion (MIC) or biocorrosion, is "corrosion affected by the presence or activity (or both) of microorganisms in biofilms on the surface of the corr ...

, or microbially-induced corrosion, corrosion caused or promoted by microorganisms * Minimum inhibitory concentration, in microbiology, the lowest concentration of an antimicrobial that will inhibit growth of a microorganism * ''Morbus ischaemicus cordis'', Latin for

coronary artery disease Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), ischemic heart disease (IHD), myocardial ischemia, or simply heart disease, involves the reduction of blood flow to the heart muscle due to build-up of atherosclerotic pla ...

Medically induced coma An induced comaalso known as a medically induced coma (MIC), barbiturate-induced coma, or drug-induced comais a temporary coma (a deep state of unconsciousness) brought on by a controlled dose of an anesthetic drug, often a barbiturate such as pe ...

Technology

Machine Identification Code A Machine Identification Code (MIC), also known as printer steganography, yellow dots, tracking dots or secret dots, is a digital watermark which certain color laser printers and copiers leave on every printed page, allowing identification of t ...

, a watermark generated by some printers * Mandatory Integrity Control, a new security feature in Microsoft Windows Vista *

Intel MIC Xeon Phi was a series of x86 manycore processors designed and made by Intel. It was intended for use in supercomputers, servers, and high-end workstations. Its architecture allowed use of standard programming languages and application programmi ...

, Intel's Many Integrated Core processor architecture *

Media Interface Connector An optical fiber connector joins optical fibers, and enables quicker connection and disconnection than splicing. The connectors mechanically couple and align the cores of fibers so light can pass. Better connectors lose very little light due ...

, for fiber optics * Message Integrity Code, a cryptographic checksum used in wireless communications *

Micrometer (device) A micrometer, sometimes known as a micrometer screw gauge, is a device incorporating a calibrated screw widely used for accurate measurement of components in mechanical engineering and machining as well as most mechanical trades, along with ot ...

, a measuring tool *

Microscope A microscope () is a laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye. Microscopy is the science of investigating small objects and structures using a microscope. Microscopic means being invisibl ...

, an instrument for optical magnification *

Microsoft Innovation Center Microsoft Innovation Centers (MICs) are local government organizations, universities, industry organizations, or software or hardware vendors who partner with Microsoft with a common goal to foster the growth of local software economies. These ...

, Microsoft partners *

Microwave integrated circuit Monolithic microwave integrated circuit, or MMIC (sometimes pronounced "mimic"), is a type of integrated circuit (IC) device that operates at microwave frequencies (300 MHz to 300 GHz). These devices typically perform functions such as ...

, a type of integrated circuit

Other uses

Market Identifier Code The ''Market Identifier Code'' (MIC) (ISO 10383) is a unique identification code used to identify securities trading exchanges, regulated and non-regulated trading markets. The MIC is a four alphanumeric character code, and is defined in ISO 1038 ...

, or ISO 10383, a unique identification code, which serves as a standard to identify securities trading exchanges, regulated and non-regulated trading markets *

Mi'kmaq language The Mi'kmaq (also ''Mi'gmaq'', ''Lnu'', ''Miꞌkmaw'' or ''Miꞌgmaw''; ; ) are a First Nations people of the Northeastern Woodlands, indigenous to the areas of Canada's Atlantic Provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec as well as the northe ...

, by ISO 639 alpha-2 language code * Middle income country, a

developing country A developing country is a sovereign state with a lesser developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries. However, this definition is not universally agreed upon. There is also no clear agreem ...

Crystal Airport (Minnesota) Crystal Airport is a public airport named after the city of Crystal, Minnesota, Crystal in Hennepin County, Minnesota, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. Most of the airport is in the city of Crystal. Portions north of taxiway C (62nd Av ...

, by IATA code