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mac¹
- /mæk/
Sounds like Mac, mack, Mack · Rhymes with -æk
Where it comes from
Clipping of mackintosh.
noun macs
- Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”). Standing in the dock at Southampton / Trying to get to Holland or France / The man in the mac said / You've got to go back / You know they didn't even give us a chance
- A person of Scottish descent (used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses).
mac²
- /mæk/
Sounds like Mac, mack, Mack · Rhymes with -æk
Where it comes from
Clipping of macaroni.
noun
- Clipping of macaroni Is there any mac and cheese left?
Mac³
- /mæk/
Where it comes from
See macc for details.
noun Macs
-
Used to address a man whose name is unknown.
Have you got a light, Mac?
Similar: John
proper noun Macs
- A diminutive of the male given name Max.
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A diminutive for a person with a surname that starts with "Mac" or "Mc".
Similar: Macca
Mac⁴
- /mæk/
Where it comes from
Informal diminutive of Macintosh, later adopted by Apple as a trademark.
noun Macs
- A Macintosh computer (made by Apple Inc.). Although our Macs served us well, in those early, dark years Macintosh users were effectively excommunicated by the computer establishment.
Mac⁵
- /mæk/
Where it comes from
A shortening.
proper noun
- McMaster University
Mac⁶
- /mæk/
proper noun
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McDonald's
Similar: Macs
MAC⁷
proper noun
- Acronym of Military Airlift Command, formerly, one of three former divisions of the US airforce, the others being SAC and TAC.
- Acronym of Military Armament Corporation
- Initialism of Military Armistice Commission
noun MACs
- 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.
- Initialism of mandatory access control
- 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. When operating on customer MAC (C-MAC) and service MAC (S-MAC) addresses, PBB uses a new backbone MAC (B-MAC) address. The B-MAC address is added at the edge of the PBB network, that is administered by a carrier VPN or a carrier-of-carriers VPN.
- Initialism of mean aerodynamic chord
- Initialism of mid-air collision
- Initialism of message authentication code
- Initialism of merchant aircraft carrier
- Initialism of magnetic accelerator cannon
- Initialism of Migration Authorisation Code
- Initialism of membrane attack complex, a part of the complement system of the innate immune system.
- 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.
- Initialism of Mycobacterium avium complex
- Initialism of minimum alveolar concentration
- Initialism of monitored anesthesia care
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: mackintosh, macintosh, mack, cam, clarence, cem, aperture, bub, pimp, mab, vac, omc, cmy, crb, gow, boss
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