MAC

macintosh, mackintosh, mac, mack

(noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

mac (plural macs)

Clipping of mackintosh.

Etymology 2

Noun

mac (uncountable)

(North America, slang) Clipping of macaroni.

Anagrams

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CAM, CMA, Cam, MCA, cam

Etymology 1

Noun

Mac (plural Macs)

(US, informal) Used to address a man whose name is unknown.

Synonyms

• (person): John

Prefix

Mac

(Irish and Scottish patronymic surnames) son of.

Proper noun

Mac

A diminutive of the male given name Max.

Etymology 2

Informal diminutive of Macintosh, later adopted by Apple as a trademark.

Noun

Mac (plural Macs)

A Macintosh computer (made by Apple Inc.), or its operating system.

Coordinate terms

• PC, personal computer, home computer, desktop computer, personal workstation, graphic workstation, graphics workstation

Etymology 3

A shortening.

Proper noun

Mac

(informal) McMaster University

Anagrams

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CAM, CMA, Cam, MCA, cam

Proper noun

MAC

(US military) Acronym of Military Airlift Command, formerly, one of three former divisions of the US airforce, the others being SAC and TAC.

(computing) 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 a single cycle. Used extensively in implementations of digital filters, transforms and codecs.

Noun

MAC

(chemistry) 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.

(computer security) Initialism of mandatory access control.

(networking) Initialism of media access control: that 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.

(mechanics) Initialism of mean aerodynamic chord.

(cryptography) Initialism of message authentication code.

(science fiction) Initialism of magnetic accelerator cannon.

(UK, telecommunications) Initialism of Migration Authorisation Code.

(immunology) Initialism of membrane attack complex, a part of the complement system of the innate immune system.

Hyponyms

• HMAC

Anagrams

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CAM, CMA, Cam, MCA, cam

Source: Wiktionary

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Mac. [Gael., son.]

Definition: A prefix, in names of Scotch origin, signifying son.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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