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- initialism Minor In Consumption (of alcohol)
- initialism Message Integrity Check. A technology that is employed to prevent an attacker from capturing data packets, altering them and resending them. The MIC provides a strong mathematical function in which the receiver and the transmitter each compute and then compare the MIC. If it does not match, the data is assumed to have been tampered with and the packet is dropped.
- abbreviation
Michoacán , a state ofMexico .
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Examples
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The MIC is hanging on to the teat they have been sucking at for 60 years.
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A Web site called MIC Gadget is claiming to have obtained a real prototype of a 64GB iPhone 4 from the Foxconn factory in China.
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Her infection was in an ulcer on her foot that would not heal, a common problem in diabetics because of their poor circulation, Her MIC was an unheard-of 128.17 Luckily, the bacterium was still susceptible to a few other drugs, and by December, the woman recovered.18
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Her infection was in an ulcer on her foot that would not heal, a common problem in diabetics because of their poor circulation, Her MIC was an unheard-of 128.17 Luckily, the bacterium was still susceptible to a few other drugs, and by December, the woman recovered.18
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Her infection was in an ulcer on her foot that would not heal, a common problem in diabetics because of their poor circulation, Her MIC was an unheard-of 128.17 Luckily, the bacterium was still susceptible to a few other drugs, and by December, the woman recovered.18
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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It's as if the CIA has dossiers (dirt) on everyone and enough dirt to make them do whatever the CIA (aka MIC) wants them to do.
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The fault lies in the "journalists" who never really provide any evidence as to why the GOP have an advantage in fighting terror (all I can think of is that they are more trigger happy and love the dollars generated by MIC aka war profiteers).
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The MIC is the root of most of our problems…Yet it is NEVER discussed as a matter of public discourse.
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The MIC is the root of most of our problems…Yet it is NEVER discussed as a matter of public discourse.
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The chemical, also known as MIC, was involved in a 1984 leak from a former Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, that killed about 15,000 people and sickened about a half-million.
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