Mace may refer to:
Spices
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Mace (spice)
Nutmeg is the seed or ground spice of several species of the genus ''Myristica''. ''Myristica fragrans'' (fragrant nutmeg or true nutmeg) is a dark-leaved evergreen tree cultivated for two spices derived from its fruit: nutmeg, from its seed, an ...
, a spice derived from the aril of nutmeg
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Achillea ageratum
''Achillea ageratum'', also known as sweet yarrow, sweet-Nancy, English mace or sweet maudlin, is a flowering plant in the sunflower family, native to Europe (Portugal, Spain, France, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Croatia and Romania), and ...
'', known as English mace, a flowering plant once used as a herb
Weapons
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Mace (bludgeon)
A mace is a blunt weapon, a type of club or virge that uses a heavy head on the end of a handle to deliver powerful strikes. A mace typically consists of a strong, heavy, wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal, featuring a head made ...
, a weapon with a heavy head on a solid shaft used to bludgeon opponents
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Flail (weapon)
A flail is a weapon consisting of a striking head attached to a handle by a flexible rope, strap, or chain. The chief tactical virtue of the flail was its capacity to strike around a defender's shield or parry. Its chief liability was a lack o ...
, a spiked weapon on a chain, sometimes called a chain mace or mace-and-chain
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Ceremonial mace
A ceremonial mace is a highly ornamented staff of metal or wood, carried before a sovereign or other high officials in civic ceremonies by a mace-bearer, intended to represent the official's authority. The mace, as used today, derives from the or ...
, an ornamented mace used in civic ceremonies
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Gada (mace)
The gada (Sanskrit: गदा ''gadā'', Kannada: ''ಗದೆ'', Telugu: ''గద'', Tamil: ''கதை'', Malay: ''gedak'', Old Tagalog: ''batuta'') is a mallet or blunt mace from the Indian subcontinent. Made either of wood or metal, it consis ...
, the blunt mace or club from India
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Kaumodaki
Kaumodaki () is the gadā (mace) of the Hindu deity Vishnu. Vishnu is often depicted holding the Kaumodaki in one of his four hands; his other attributes are the chakra, the conch, and the lotus. The ''gada'' is also found in the iconography ...
, the gada (mace) of the Hindu God Vishnu
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Mace (spray)
Mace is the brand name of an early type of aerosol self-defense spray invented by Alan Lee Litman in the 1960s. The first commercial product of its type, Litman's design packaged phenacyl chloride (CN) tear gas dissolved in hydrocarbon solvents ...
, a brand of tear gas, often used by police
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MGM-13 Mace
The Martin Mace was a ground-launched cruise missile developed from the earlier Martin TM-61 Matador. It used a new self-contained navigation system that eliminated the need to get updates from ground-based radio stations, and thereby allowed i ...
, a U.S. tactical surface-to-surface missile
Science and technology
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Major adverse cardiovascular events Major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE, or major adverse cardiac events) is a composite endpoint frequently used in cardiovascular research. Despite widespread use of the term in clinical trials, the definitions of MACE can differ, which makes ...
, a criterion for evaluating cardiovascular disease treatments such as angioplasty
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Malone antegrade continence enema
A Malone antegrade continence enema is a surgical procedure used to create a continent pathway proximal to the anus that facilitates fecal evacuation using enemas.
Description
The operation involves connecting the appendix to the abdominal wall ...
, a surgical procedure used to create a continent pathway proximal to the anus
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Major Atmospheric Cerenkov Experiment Telescope
Major Atmospheric Cerenkov Experiment Telescope (MACE) is an Imaging Atmospheric Cerenkov telescope (IACT) located near Hanle (village), Hanle, Ladakh, India. It is the highest (in altitude) and second largest Cerenkov telescope in the world. It ...
, a telescope being built by ECIL to be placed at Hanle
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Models And Counter-Examples Mace stands for "Models And Counter-Examples", and is a model finder. Most automated theorem provers try to perform a proof by refutation on the clause normal form of the proof problem, by showing that the combination of axioms and negated conject ...
, a computer software for model generation
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Metal assisted chemical etching
Arts and entertainment
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Mace (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
* Sgt. Colt "Mace" Howards, a fictional character in the 1988 animated TV series ''
COPS''
* Mace, a fictional character in the 1995 film ''
Strange Days''
* Mace, a fictional character in the 2007 film ''
Sunshine
Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light. On Earth, sunlight is scattered and filtered through Earth's atmosphere, and is obvious as daylight when th ...
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M.A.C.E. Music, an American record label
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Mace: The Dark Age'', a 1997 video game
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Mace Windu
Mace Windu is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise. Windu was portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in the prequel trilogy. Jackson reprised the role in the 2008 animated film '' Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' and with voice only in the 20 ...
, a fictional character in the Star Wars universe
Businesses and organizations
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Mace (construction company)
Mace Group Ltd, commonly known as Mace, is a global consultancy and construction firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom, employing approximately 5,000 people, across five continents with a turnover in excess of £2 billion.
History
The comp ...
, an international consultancy and construction company
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Mace (shop)
Mace is a convenience shop symbol group operating as three separate entities with different ownerships in Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The shops are independently owned and join the groups, paying a fee for marke ...
, a convenience store chain in the United Kingdom and Ireland
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Mace Security International
Mace Security International, Inc. () is an American manufacturer of personal safety and security products such as the widely recognized Mace pepper spray as well as stun guns, personal alarms, and products for the law enforcement and private s ...
, a manufacturer of personal defense products, e.g. Mace pepper spray
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Mar Athanasius College of Engineering
Mar Athanasius College of Engineering (MACE) is a government aided engineering college located in Kothamangalam, Kerala state, India. The college is affiliated to the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University since its inception in 2015.
One ...
, an Indian engineering college
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Media Archive for Central England Media Archive for Central England (MACE) is the public sector regional film archive that collects, preserves and provides access to film, television and other moving image materials that relate to the governmental regions of the East Midlands and We ...
, a public sector regional film archive that collects, preserves and provides access to moving image material
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Metropolitan Architectural Consortium for Education
The Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme (abbreviated and more commonly referred to as CLASP), was formed in England in 1957 to combine the resources of Local Authorities with the purpose of developing a prefabricated school building p ...
People
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Mace (surname) Mace is a surname, and may refer to:
* Arthur Cruttenden Mace (1874–1928), British Egyptologist
* Borden Mace (1920–2014), American film producer
* Cecil Alec Mace (1894–1971), British philosopher and industrial psychologist
* Daniel Mace ...
, a list of people
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Mace (wrestler)
Brennan Marcel Williams (born February 5, 1991) is an American professional wrestler and former American football player. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name ma.çé.
Prior to beginning hi ...
(Dio Maddin; born 1991), American professional wrestler
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Mace Coronel
''Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn'' is an American comedy television series developed by Michael Feldman and created by Matt Fleckenstein that premiered on Nickelodeon on September 13, 2014. It ran for four seasons and 82 episodes, with the final epis ...
(born 2004), American actor
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Mace Francis
Mace Francis (born 1978) is an Australian composer and academic.
Career
Francis moved to Perth, Western Australia from Victoria in 2000 to study jazz composition and arranging. He graduated from WA Academy of Performing Arts in 2004 and compl ...
(born 1978), Australian composer and academic
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Mace Neufeld
Mace Alvin Neufeld (July 13, 1928 – January 21, 2022) was an American film and television producer.
Life and career
Neufeld was born July 13, 1928, in New York City, New York (state), New York, the son of Margaret Ruth (married and maiden name ...
(1928–2022), American film producer
Places
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Macé, Normandy, France
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Mače, Croatia
Mače is a village and municipality in Krapina-Zagorje County in Croatia. According to the 2011 census, there are 2,534 inhabitants in the area, absolute majority of which are Croats.
References
Populated places in Krapina-Zagorje C ...
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Mače, Slovenia
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Mace, Indiana
Mace is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Walnut Township, Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
History
Mace, formerly called "Fredericksburg", was laid out in about 1840 by Frederick Long. A post offi ...
, U.S.
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Hill 262
Battle of Hill 262, or the Mont Ormel ridge (elevation ), is an area of high ground above the village of Coudehard in Normandy that was the location of a bloody engagement in the final stages of the Battle of Falaise in the Normandy Campaign dur ...
in Normandy, France, known as the "Mace" in World War II
Other uses
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Mace (spray)
Mace is the brand name of an early type of aerosol self-defense spray invented by Alan Lee Litman in the 1960s. The first commercial product of its type, Litman's design packaged phenacyl chloride (CN) tear gas dissolved in hydrocarbon solvents ...
, a brand of tear gas, often used by police
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Mace (unit)
A mace (; Hong Kong English usage: tsin; Southeast Asian English usage: chee) is a traditional Chinese measurement of weight in East Asia that was also used as a currency denomination. It is equal to 10 candareens and is of a tael or approximate ...
, an English term for a traditional Chinese measurement of weight
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Mace debating, a particular style of debating
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Member of the Australian College of Educators
The Australian College of Educators (ACE) is an Australian national professional association for educators. Membership is open to all professional educators working in the early childhood, school, and tertiary education sectors, as well as to edu ...
See also
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Mase (disambiguation)
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Maze (disambiguation)
A maze is a type of puzzle that consists of a complex branching passage through which the solver must find a route.
Maze, The Maze or Mazes may also refer to:
Places
* Maze (HM Prison), a former prison in Northern Ireland
* MacArthur Maze, a ...
* Mace's Hole, the former name of
Beulah, Colorado
Beulah is an unincorporated community and a post office located within the Beulah Valley census-designated place in Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. The Beulah Post Office has the ZIP code 81023. Beulah is a part of the Beulah Valley C ...
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