Mac

/mæk/ name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”). abbreviation, alt-of, clipping

    "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"

  2. 2
    Clipping of macaroni. Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, uncountable

    "Is there any mac and cheese left?"

  3. 3
    Used to address a man whose name is unknown. US, informal

    "Have you got a light, Mac?"

  4. 4
    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."

  5. 5
    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. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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  1. 6
    a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric wordnet
  2. 7
    A person of Scottish descent (used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses). Australia, Canada, UK, US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur
  3. 8
    Initialism of mandatory access control. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  4. 9
    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. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

    "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."

  5. 10
    Initialism of mean aerodynamic chord. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  6. 11
    Initialism of mid-air collision. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  7. 12
    Initialism of message authentication code. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  8. 13
    Initialism of merchant aircraft carrier. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, historical, initialism, uncountable
  9. 14
    Initialism of magnetic accelerator cannon. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  10. 15
    Initialism of Migration Authorisation Code. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  11. 16
    Initialism of membrane attack complex, a part of the complement system of the innate immune system. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  12. 17
    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. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  13. 18
    Initialism of Mycobacterium avium complex. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  14. 19
    Initialism of minimum alveolar concentration. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  15. 20
    Initialism of monitored anesthesia care. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the male given name Max.
  2. 2
    McMaster University informal
  3. 3
    McDonald's Singapore, slang
  4. 4
    Acronym of Military Airlift Command, formerly, one of three former divisions of the US airforce, the others being SAC and TAC. US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  5. 5
    A diminutive for a person with a surname that starts with "Mac" or "Mc". Canada, US
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  1. 6
    Acronym of Military Armament Corporation. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  2. 7
    Initialism of Military Armistice Commission. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Synonyms

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mackintoshapple computermac basedmac relatedmac systemmacintosh

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"Mac helped me carry the vacuum cleaner."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of mackintosh.

Etymology 2

Clipping of macaroni.

Etymology 3

See macc for details.

Etymology 4

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

Etymology 5

A shortening.

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