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  • abbreviation Military Airlift Command

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  • noun The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for Macao.
  • initialism chemistry 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 Military Airlift Command, one of three former divisions of the airforce, the others being SAC and TAC.
  • initialism computing Media Access Control, that portion of Ethernet, 802.11 wireless, Bluetooth, FDDI, ATM, and Fiber Channel networks that controls which hardware devices have access to the media over which signals are sent.
  • initialism computing 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 a single cycle. Used extensively in implementations of digital filters, transforms and codecs.
  • initialism mechanics Mean Aerodynamic Chord.
  • initialism cryptography Message Authentication Code.
  • initialism science fiction magnetic accelerator cannon

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    Freetards in deep denial 2007

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  • Apple has released a few updates for its Time Capsule and Airport products. for Mac includes general bug fixes and addresses the following issues: Not importing all settings when importing a configuration and not propagating MAC address control lists when using an extended network.

    The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Michael Grothaus 2010

  • Mac users are growing by the numbers and more and more PC computer users are transitioning to the MAC platform because of the stability and ease of use.

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  • Mac OS X's sandboxing is provided by the Mandatory Access Control (MAC) framework, an implementation of the MAC framework from TrustedBSD.

    AppleInsider 2009

  • Don't forget the MIAC Womens soccer championship game (winner goes to NCAA tourney) is tomorrow between Mac and Carlton at MAC 7: 30 pm

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts Inside Minnesota Soccer | Inside Minnesota Soccer 2009

  • Don't forget the MIAC Womens soccer championship game (winner goes to NCAA tourney) is tomorrow between Mac and Carlton at MAC 7: 30 pm

    Soccer Blogs - latest posts Inside Minnesota Soccer | Inside Minnesota Soccer 2009

  • Mac OS X's sandboxing is provided by the Mandatory Access Control (MAC) framework, an implementation of the MAC framework from TrustedBSD.

    AppleInsider 2009

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