Meaning of Mac | Babel Free
mækDefinitions
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Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”). abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
- Clipping of macaroni.
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Used to address a man whose name is unknown. US, informal
- A diminutive of the male given name Max.
- A Macintosh computer (made by Apple Inc.).
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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
- McMaster University
- 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.
- McDonald's
- A person of Scottish descent (used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses).
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A diminutive for a person with a surname that starts with "Mac" or "Mc". Canada, US
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Acronym of Military Armament Corporation. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- Initialism of mandatory access control.
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Initialism of Military Armistice Commission. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 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.
- 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.
Equivalents
Examples
“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”
“Is there any mac and cheese left?”
“Who wrote "kick⟳ me" on my back? Who put⟳ a spider in my mac?”
“Nothing tastes better to me than a big ol' bowl of super creamy, cheesy mac!”
“Have⟳ you got a light⟳, Mac?”
“TIME was, the stereotypical New York cabdriver was a gabby if slightly gruff man with a Brooklyn accent who knew every pothole in every street in every borough and greeted people with the world-weary query, "Where to, Mac?"”
“Although our Macs served us well, in those early, dark years Macintosh users were effectively excommunicated by the computer establishment.”
“Built by Matthew Weed, a blind political science and history major, and Victor Grigorieff, a computer science and psychology major, the system is based on a Macintosh IIfx, although it can run⟳ on earlier models, since each Mac program⟳ has a similar interface.”
“Apple, IBM, and Motorola have⟳ teamed up to produce⟳ this 32-bit chip that will be used in future Apple Macintoshes and IBM PCs. PowerPC systems will run⟳ Mac or Unix programs, and possibly Windows software in the future.”
“If you invest⟳ the time to learn⟳ one Windows or Mac program⟳, you'll automatically have⟳ mastered the basic skills to use⟳ hundreds of others.”
“As this shift accelerates, finding software that works with a particular operating system will be less of a concern⟳. People will be able to base⟳ decisions about which OS to use⟳ strictly on merit, and on personal preference. For me, if the choice is between struggling to configure every feature and being able to boot up and get⟳ to work⟳, at long last⟳ I choose⟳ the Mac.”
“Oddly, the big difference didn't come⟳ in our user ratings, where we expected the famously friendly Mac interface to shine⟳. Apple's popular commercials have⟳ painted the picture in stark terms: There are two types of people, Mac people and PC people.”
“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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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