mac

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
  2. A person of Scottish descent (used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses).
noun
  1. Clipping of macaroni.
noun
  1. Used to address a man whose name is unknown.
name
  1. A diminutive of the male given name Max.
  2. A diminutive for a person with a surname that starts with "Mac" or "Mc".
noun
  1. A Macintosh computer (made by Apple Inc.).
name
  1. McMaster University
name
  1. McDonald's
name
  1. Acronym of Military Airlift Command, formerly, one of three former divisions of the US airforce, the others being SAC and TAC.
  2. Acronym of Military Armament Corporation.
  3. Initialism of Military Armistice Commission.
noun
  1. Initialism of maximum allowable concentration, the maximum concentration of a pollutant which is considered harmless to healthy adults during their working hours, assuming they breathe uncontaminated air at all other times.
  2. Initialism of mandatory access control.
  3. Initialism of media access control: the portion of Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11 wireless, Bluetooth, FDDI, ATM, and Fibre Channel networks that controls which hardware devices have access to the media over which signals are sent.
  4. Initialism of mean aerodynamic chord.
  5. Initialism of mid-air collision.
  6. Initialism of message authentication code.
  7. Initialism of merchant aircraft carrier.
  8. Initialism of magnetic accelerator cannon.
  9. Initialism of Migration Authorisation Code.
  10. Initialism of membrane attack complex, a part of the complement system of the innate immune system.
  11. Initialism of multiply and accumulate, a hardware module found in digital signal processors which performs a multiplication and adds the result of that operation to an accumulator in the same cycle, used extensively in implementations of digital filters, transforms, and codecs.
  12. Initialism of Mycobacterium avium complex.

Pronunciation

măk /mæk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mac.wav

Word forms

mac macs

Etymology

Clipping of mackintosh.

Synonyms

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