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acronym
MAC
- 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.
- US military Military Airlift Command, one of three former divisions of the airforce, the others being SAC and TAC.
- computing Media Access Control, that portion of Ethernet, 802.11 wireless, Bluetooth, FDDI, ATM, and Fiber Channel network|networks that controls which hardware device|devices have access to the media over which signals are sent.
- 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.
- mechanics Mean Aerodynamic Chord.
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