Mac OS character encodings

Mac or MAC most commonly refers to:

* Mac (computer), a family of personal computers made by Apple Inc.
* Mackintosh, a raincoat made of rubberized cloth
* A variant of the word macaroni, mostly used in the name of the dish mac and cheese
* Mac, Gaelic for "son", a prefix to family names often appearing in Gaelic names

Mac or MAC may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* Mac (''Green Wing''), a television character
* Mac (''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia''), a television character
* Mac Gargan, an enemy of Spider-Man
* Mac Foster, a character on ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends''
* Angus "Mac" MacGyver, from the television series ''MacGyver''
* Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie, from the TV series ''Veronica Mars''
* Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie, from the TV series ''JAG''
* Dr. Terrence McAfferty, from Robert Muchamore's ''CHERUB'' and ''Henderson's Boys'' novel series
* "Mac" McAnnally, in ''The Dresden Files'' series
* Randle McMurphy, in the movie ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''
* Mac Taylor, from the TV series ''CSI: NY''
* Mac, a canine character in the television series ''Clifford the Big Red Dog''
* Monster Attack Crew, a fictional pilot squadron in the television series ''Ultraman Leo''
* MAC (Mysterious Alien Creature), the titular character in the 1988 film ''Mac and Me''

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Mac (film), ''Mac'' (film), 1992 directed by and starring John Turturro
* Mac (novel), ''Mac'' (novel), by John MacLean
* Mac, a Sports Beanie Babies#Beanies representing baseball players, Sports Beanie Baby cardinal produced by Ty, Inc. in 1999
* MAC Awards, for achievements in cabaret, comedy, and jazz, administered by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs
* Mac the Moose, a public statue in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada; formerly the ''World's Largest Moose''

Business and economics

* Marginal Abatement Cost, a concept in environmental economics
* Material adverse change, a provision in mergers and acquisitions contracts and venture financing agreements

Organizations

Businesses

* MAC Cosmetics, a cosmetics brand, stylized as M•A•C
* Mac Para Technology, a Czech aircraft manufacturer
* Macerich, an American real estate investment trust (NYSE stock symbol MAC)
* Manufacture d'armes de Châtellerault, a French state arms manufacturer
* Martin's Air Charter, now Martinair, an airline
* Morgan Advanced Ceramics, a ceramics manufacturing company

Government and military agencies

* Mainland Affairs Council, an agency under the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China
* Medicare Administrative Contractor, a private company contracted to administer Medicare (United States), Medicare benefits in the U.S.
* Metropolitan Airports Commission, the operator of airports in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area
* Military Affairs Commission in China; see Central Military Commission (People's Republic of China)
* Military Airlift Command, the predecessor of the Air Mobility Command of the United States Air Force
* Municipal Assistance Corporation, created by the State of New York in 1975 to deal with New York City's fiscal crisis

Non-profit organizations

* mac (Birmingham), formerly known as the Midlands Arts Centre, in Birmingham, UK
* Malaysian AIDS Council
* Marine Aquarium Council
* Myanmar Accountancy Council

Political groups

* ''Mouvement d'Action Civique'', a defunct Belgian far right group
* ''Mouvement Autonome Casamançais'' (Casamancian Autonomous Movement), a defunct political party in Casamance, Senegal
* ''Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru'', a Welsh organization responsible for several bombing incidents
* Muslims Against Crusades, a UK-based Islamic group noted for burning poppies during the Remembrance Day silence in 2010

Schools

* Macdonald Campus of McGill University, Canada
* McMaster University, in Canada
* Michigan Agricultural College, former name of Michigan State University

Sports organizations

Clubs and teams

* Maranhão Atlético Clube, a Brazilian association football club
* Marília Atlético Clube, a Brazilian association football club
* Missouri Athletic Club, a traditional gentlemen's and athletic club in downtown St. Louis, Missouri
* Multnomah Athletic Club, a private athletic club in Oregon

Conferences

* Macomb Area Conference, a Michigan high school football conference
* Mayflower Athletic Conference, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts
* Mid-American Conference, an NCAA Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision) sports conference
* Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference, a Washington, D.C., area high school athletic league
* Mid-Atlantic Rifle Conference, an NCAA rifle-only conference
* Midwest Athletic Conference, an Ohio high school athletic conference in west-central Ohio
* Middle Atlantic Conferences, an umbrella organization for three NCAA Division III sports conferences
** Middle Atlantic Conferences#Middle Atlantic Conference, Middle Atlantic Conference, one of the three conferences of the above, used to organize competition in some sports
* Mississippi Athletic Conference, a high school sports conference in the Iowa Quad Cities
* Mountain Athletic Conference (NCHSAA), a North Carolina high school athletic conference
* Mountain Athletic Conference (PIAA), a Pennsylvania high school athletic conference

People

Names

* Mac, Gaelic for "son", a Celtic onomastics#Surname prefixes, prefix to family names often appearing in Irish and Scottish names
* Mac (nickname)
* Mạc (surname), Anglicized surname or Mạc (Vietnamese surname)
* Mạc dynasty, 16th-century rulers in Vietnam

People with the nickname or professional name

* Mac (rapper) (born 1977), American rapper, stage name of McKinley Phipps Jr
* MC Mac, member and musician of So Solid Crew
* Derek McCulloch (1897–1967), British radio broadcaster known as "Uncle Mac"
* Ian McCulloch (singer) (born 1959), commonly referred to as "Mac the Mouth" or just "Mac"
* Stanley McMurtry (born 1936), British cartoonist with the pen name "Mac"

Places

Inhabited places

*Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, nicknamed "Fort Mac"
*Macau, a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, ISO 3166 code MAC
*Macedonia (disambiguation), various places

Museums and arts centers

* mac (Birmingham), formerly known as the Midlands Arts Centre, in Birmingham, UK
* Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, UK
* Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (''Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya''), an archaeology museum in Catalonia, Spain
* Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (''Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói''), a museum in Niterói, Brazil

Other facilities

*Macomb (Amtrak station), Illinois, United States, Amtrak station code MAC
*UCLA Marina Aquatic Center, a recreational facility in Marina del Rey, California

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* MAC (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen of Mitoxantrone and Ara-C
* Maximum allowable concentration, a concept related to threshold limit value (TLV)
* Membrane attack complex, an immune system function using complement
* Microbiota-accessible carbohydrates, a category of carbohydrates consumed by gut microbes
* Minimum alveolar concentration, a measure used to compare the strengths of anesthetic vapors
* Mitochondrial apoptosis-induced channel, the cytochrome c release pore of apoptotic mitochondria
* Monitored anesthesia care, a form of Anesthesia awareness#Conscious sedation and monitored anesthesia care, anesthesia with partial awareness
* Mycobacterium avium complex, a group of environmental pathogens

Computing and telecommunication

* MAC address, or Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA), the OSI layer 2 address of network interfaces
* .mac, a file extension for macros in Agilent ChemStation software
* Mac (computer), a brand of computers and computer operating systems made by Apple Inc.
** macOS, formerly Mac OS X and OS X, Apple's current operating system for the Macintosh
** Classic Mac OS, the original operating system for Apple's Macintosh
** .Mac, now iCloud, a subscription service by Apple
* MAC times, metadata which record times of events associated with a computer file
* Mandatory access control, a type of access control in computer security
* Maximum activate count, a parameter associated with the LPDDR4 memory's TRR feature that mitigates the row hammer effect
* Medium access control (often "Media Access Control"), a sublayer of the Data Link layer
* Message authentication code, used to authenticate a message in cryptography
* Migration Authorisation Code, a unique code used when switching between DSL Internet service providers in the UK
* Multiplexed Analogue Components, a proposed satellite television transmission standard
* Multiply–accumulate operation, or multiplier–accumulator, in digital signal processing

Transportation

* Chord (aeronautics)#Mean aerodynamic chord, Mean aerodynamic chord, a measure of the geometry of an airfoil
* Merchant aircraft carrier, used during World War II by Britain and the Netherlands
* Mid-air collision, a type of aircraft accident

Weapons

* Mac-10 (Military Armament Corporation Model 10, officially the M10), a compact, blowback-operated machine pistol
* Mac-11, a sub-compact version of the Model 10 machine pistol

Other uses in science and technology

* Mission assurance, an engineering process
* MAC (Money Access Card), an ATM card, ATM (automated teller machine) card

Other uses

* MAC Award, or Hermann Trophy, the highest award in American college soccer
* Mackintosh, a raincoat made of rubberized cloth
* Modern Army Combatives, a hand-to-hand combat training regimen
* Material adequacy condition, a concept in the philosophies of logic and language

See also

*Big Mac (disambiguation)
*Little Mac (disambiguation)
*McIntosh (disambiguation)
*Macaroni
*Macaroni and cheese, or "mac and cheese" in American and Canadian English
*Mach (disambiguation)
*Mack (disambiguation)
*Mak (disambiguation)

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