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Proper noun

  1. {{lb|en|US|_|military}} {{acronym of|en|w:Military Airlift Command}}, formerly, one of three former divisions of the US airforce, the others being '''[[SAC]]''' and '''[[TAC]]'''.
  2. {{acronym of|en|w:Military Armament Corporation}}.
  3. {{lb|en|UN}} {{init of|en|w:United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission|Military Armistice Commission}}.

Noun

  1. {{lb|en|chemistry}} {{init of|en||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.
  2. {{lb|en|computer security}} {{init of|en|w:mandatory access control}}.
  3. {{lb|en|networking}} {{init of|en||media access control}}: the portion of [[Ethernet]], [[Wi-Fi]] 802.11 wireless, [[Bluetooth]], [[FDDI]], [[ATM]], and {{w|Fibre Channel}} [[network]]s that controls which [[hardware]] [[device]]s have access to the [[media]] over which signals are sent.
  4. {{lb|en|aviation}} {{init of|en||mean aerodynamic chord}}.
  5. {{lb|en|aviation}} {{init of|en|[[mid-air]] [[collision]]}}.
  6. {{lb|en|cryptography}} {{init of|en|w:message authentication code}}.
  7. {{lb|en|military|nautical|aviation|historical}} {{init of|en|w:merchant aircraft carrier}}.
  8. {{lb|en|science fiction}} {{init of|en|[[magnetic]] [[accelerator]] [[cannon]]}}.
  9. {{lb|en|UK|telecommunications}} {{init of|en|w:Migration Authorisation Code}}.
  10. {{lb|en|immunology}} {{init of|en|membrane attack complex}}, a part of the [[complement system]] of the [[innate immune system]].
  11. {{lb|en|computing}} {{init of|en|[[multiply]] [[and]] [[accumulate]]}}, a [[hardware]] [[module]] found in [[digital]] [[signal]] [[processor]]s which performs a [[multiplication]] and [[add]]s the [[result]] of that operation to an [[accumulator]] in the same [[cycle]], used extensively in implementations of digital filters, transforms{{,}} and codecs.
  12. {{lb|en|microbiology}} {{initialism of|en|w:Mycobacterium avium complex}}.

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