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MAC has several meanings, including:
- MAC (cosmetics)
- Media Access Control, in computer networks. See also MAC address. This meaning is occasionally rendered as "Machine Access Code".
- Macintosh computer (since 2001 simply known as "Mac") by Apple
- Mammalian artificial chromosome
- mandatory access control
- Maximum allowable concentration of toxins, e.g. in food or as reference in environmental remediation
- Merchant Aircraft Carrier ships
- Message authentication code, in cryptography
- Metropolitan Airports Commission, operator of airports in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region of Minnesota
- Mid-American Conference, US collegiate sports conference
- Middle Atlantic Conference, US collegiate sports conference, also its parent group, the Middle Atlantic Corporation
- The Midlands Arts Centre, a venue in Birmingham, England
- Military Airlift Command, the predecessor of the Air Mobility Command of the United States Air Force
- Minimum alveolar concentration (Anaesthesia)
- Michigan Agricultural College, usually written "M.A.C.", was the name of Michigan State University from 1909 to 1925.
- Multiply-accumulate, especially in digital signal processor contexts
- MAC times in a computer file system are times of last modification, access, and change of a file.
- Michigan Aerospace Corporation, a company in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Moves, Adds and Changes - System administration tasks related to a telephone system. Sometimes referred to as MACD (moves, adds, changes, and disconnects).
- Mobile Advisory Council
- The Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya)
See also: Mac.