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MacBook Neo

The MacBook Neo is Apple's most affordable MacBook, introduced in March 2026 at $599, built on the iPhone 16 Pro's A18 Pro chip with a 13-inch Liquid Retina display.

MacBook Pro

MacBook Pro is Apple's line of high-performance laptops for professional workloads like video editing and software development, introduced in 2006 and now powered by M-series chips.

MACC1

MACC1 (Metastasis Associated in Colon Cancer 1), gene at 7p21.1 regulating HGF/MET signaling; prognostic biomarker for metastasis and poor survival in over 20 solid cancers.

Maccabean Revolt

The Maccabean Revolt, also known as the Hasmonean Revolt (מרד החשמונאים), was a Judean rebellion against the Seleucid Empire beginning in 167 BCE, led by Mattathias and his five sons.

Maccabees

Maccabees, also Hasmoneans (Hashmonaim): priestly Jewish family of Mattathias and his five sons, including Judas Maccabee, who led the second-century BCE revolt against Antiochus IV, rededicated the Temple in 164 BCE, and founded the Hasmonean dynasty that ruled Judea about eighty years until Herod.

Maccabi Haifa F.C.

Maccabi Haifa F.C. (מכבי חיפה) is a professional soccer club from Haifa, Israel, that plays in the Israeli Premier League and has won 15 championships, most recently 2022/23.

Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. (מועדון כדורגל מכבי אבשלום פתח תקווה)

Maccabi Petah Tikva F.C. (מועדון כדורגל מכבי אבשלום פתח תקווה), registered as Maccabi Ironi Petah Tikva, is an Israeli football club founded 1912 in Istanbul; three State Cups, 2025/26 National League title, 2005-06 UEFA Cup group stage.

Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. (מועדון כדורסל מכבי תל אביב)

Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Club (מועדון כדורסל מכבי תל אביב), also Maccabi Playtika/Rapyd Tel Aviv, founded 1932 in Tel Aviv: 55 Israeli titles, 45 cups, six European championships (1977, 1981, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2014), playing EuroLeague home games in Belgrade since 2023.

Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.

Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. (מכבי תל אביב), founded 1906, is Israel's oldest and most decorated football club: 26 league titles, 24 State Cups, two Asian Club Cups, never relegated, and a record 209 UEFA matches.

Maccabiah Games (המכביה)

Maccabiah Games (המכביה), the "Jewish Olympics": quadrennial multi-sport competition in Israel for Jewish athletes, first held 1932; next edition postponed to June 30–July 14, 2026.

Macchariya-Kosiya

Macchariya-Kosiya (मच्छरियकोसिय), also written Maccharikosiya, was a miserly treasurer of Sakkāra near Rājagaha whose conversion by the elder Mahā-Moggallāna is told in the Pali Dhammapada commentary.

Macchi M.C.72

The Macchi M.C.72, also known as the Macchi-Castoldi MC-72, is an Italian racing seaplane designed by Mario Castoldi for the 1931 Schneider Trophy, which never raced.

Macchiaioli

The Macchiaioli were a group of Italian painters active in Florence and Tuscany from about 1855 to the early 1870s who built pictures from patches of color.

Macclesfield

Macclesfield is a market town in eastern Cheshire, England, the largest town in north Cheshire with about 53,000 people, known for its historic silk industry.

Macclesfield 2–1 Crystal Palace (2026)

Macclesfield 2–1 Crystal Palace (2026): FA Cup third-round tie, 10 January 2026, in which sixth-tier National League North phoenix club Macclesfield FC beat defending champions Crystal Palace 2-1 at the Leasing.com Stadium, the biggest FA Cup upset by league placing (117 places) and first holders' exit to non-league opposition since 1909.

Macclesfield F.C.

Macclesfield F.C., the Silkmen, is a phoenix football club in Macclesfield, Cheshire, founded 2020 after Macclesfield Town's liquidation; it plays at the Leasing.com Stadium (Moss Rose) in the National League North and beat FA Cup holders Crystal Palace in 2026.

Macclesfield Town F.C.

Macclesfield Town F.C., the Silkmen, was an English club founded 1874, reformed 1946, that played 15 EFL seasons, won the FA Trophy in 1970 and 1996, and was wound up in 2020 over £500,000 debts, succeeded by Macclesfield FC.

MacConkey agar

MacConkey agar (MAC): selective, differential culture medium for gram-negative bacteria, invented by Alfred MacConkey (Lancet, 1900). Bile salts and crystal violet inhibit gram-positives; lactose plus neutral red turns fermenters pink, non-fermenters colorless.

MacCready Gossamer Albatross

The MacCready Gossamer Albatross is a human-powered aircraft designed by Paul MacCready's AeroVironment team, which flew the English Channel in 1979, piloted by cyclist Bryan Allen, winning the Kremer Prize.

MacCready Gossamer Condor

The MacCready Gossamer Condor, also called the Gossamer Condor, was a human-powered aircraft designed by Paul MacCready that completed the first sustained figure-eight flight in 1977, winning the Kremer Prize.

MacCready Gossamer Penguin

The MacCready Gossamer Penguin was a three-quarter-scale solar-powered aircraft built by Paul MacCready's AeroVironment team, which flew the first sustained flight on direct solar power in 1980.

MACD

MACD, or Moving Average Convergence Divergence, is a trend-following momentum indicator comparing two exponential moving averages of an asset's prices, created by Gerald Appel in the late 1970s.

MacDill Air Force Base

MacDill Air Force Base, Tampa, Florida: Air Mobility Command base activated 1941, home of the 6th Air Refueling Wing's KC-135 tankers and headquarters of U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command.

Macdonald Carey

Macdonald Carey (1913–1994), American actor born in Sioux City, Iowa; star of 50+ B films ('King of the Bs') and Dr. Tom Horton on Days of Our Lives from 1965 until his 1994 death, voicing the famous hourglass opening.

MacDonald House bombing

The MacDonald House bombing was a terrorist attack on 10 March 1965, when two Indonesian marine commandos bombed MacDonald House in Singapore, killing 3 and injuring 33, the deadliest attack of Konfrontasi.

Macdonald polynomials

Macdonald polynomials are a two-parameter family of symmetric polynomials indexed by partitions, introduced by Ian G. Macdonald in 1987 to unify the Hall-Littlewood and Jack symmetric functions.

Macdonald triad

The Macdonald triad, or homicidal triad, is John Macdonald's 1963 set of three childhood behaviors, animal cruelty, firesetting, and enuresis, once thought to predict adult violence and serial murder but now largely unsupported empirically.

MacDowell

MacDowell is an artist residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife Marian; it is the oldest artist residency in the United States.

Macduff (Macbeth)

Macduff is the Thane of Fife in Shakespeare's Macbeth: a loyal Scottish noble who discovers Duncan's body, flees to England to join Malcolm, whose family Macbeth slaughters, and who kills Macbeth as the man not of woman born.

Mace (bludgeon)

A mace is a crushing weapon with a heavy head on a stout shaft, used from ancient times and surviving today as a symbol of parliamentary authority.