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MACOM Technology Solutions
MACOM Technology Solutions is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, that designs and makes analog RF, microwave, millimeter wave, and optical chips, trading on Nasdaq as MTSI.
Macomb County, Michigan
Macomb County, Michigan: southeastern Detroit-area county, seat Mount Clemens, organized January 15, 1818 and named for General Alexander Macomb. Michigan's third most populous county (881,217 in 2020), manufacturing-heavy economy, county executive government.
MaComère
MaComère is the refereed scholarly journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, founded in 1995, publishing work by and about Caribbean women since 1998.
Mâcon
Mâcon, prefecture of Saône-et-Loire in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France; Saône-river town and Southern Burgundy capital. 35,177 inhabitants (2023), Mâconnais wine region, Lamartine's hometown, TGV and A6/A40 road hub.
Macon, Georgia
Macon, Georgia: seat of Bibb County, fourth-largest Georgia city, consolidated with Bibb County in 2014 as Macon-Bibb County. Fall-line city on the Ocmulgee River at I-75/I-16, population 157,346 (2020), known for soul music heritage and Ocmulgee Mounds.
Maconellicoccus hirsutus
Maconellicoccus hirsutus, the pink hibiscus mealybug (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), a highly polyphagous scale insect native to southern Asia; pest of cotton, grapevine, mulberry, and hibiscus; controlled mainly by Anagyrus kamali biological control.
MacOS
macOS, formerly Mac OS X and then OS X, is Apple's operating system for Mac computers, first released in 2001 on a Unix-based Darwin core.
MacOS Big Sur
MacOS Big Sur, also known as macOS 11, is an operating system for Macintosh computers released by Apple in November 2020, the first to run on Apple's own silicon.
MacOS Catalina
MacOS Catalina (version 10.15) is the 2019 Mac operating system release that replaced iTunes with Music, Podcasts, and TV apps and dropped 32-bit app support.
MacOS Golden Gate
MacOS Golden Gate (version 27) is the twenty-third major release of Apple's Mac operating system, released in 2026 and the first macOS not to run on Intel Macs.
MacOS High Sierra
MacOS High Sierra (version 10.13) is Apple's Mac operating system released as a free update on September 25, 2017, focusing on the APFS file system, Metal 2 graphics, and HEVC video.
MacOS Mojave
macOS Mojave (version 10.14) is the fifteenth major release of Apple's Mac desktop operating system, announced in June 2018 and released that September with Dark Mode, Stacks, and Continuity Camera.
MacOS Monterey
MacOS Monterey, also known as macOS 12, is Apple's Mac operating system released on October 25, 2021, with features like Live Text and Safari tab groups.
MacOS Sequoia
MacOS Sequoia, also known as MacOS 15, is the twenty-first major release of Apple's Mac operating system, announced in June 2024 and released that September with iPhone Mirroring and Apple Intelligence.
MacOS Sierra
MacOS Sierra, also known as OS X 10.12, is the thirteenth major release of Apple's Mac operating system, released free in 2016 and best known for bringing Siri to the Mac.
MacOS Sonoma
macOS Sonoma, also known as macOS 14, is the twentieth major release of Apple's Mac operating system, released as a free update on September 26, 2023.
MacOS Tahoe
MacOS Tahoe, also known as MacOS 26, is the twenty-second major release of Apple's macOS operating system, announced in June 2025 and released that September as a free update.
MacOS Ventura
MacOS Ventura, also known as macOS 13, is the nineteenth major release of Apple's Mac operating system, released free in October 2022 for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
MacOS version history
The macOS version history covers Apple's desktop operating system, formerly Mac OS X and OS X, from its first release in 2001 through macOS Tahoe 26.
Macôt-La-Plagne
Macôt-La-Plagne, former commune in Savoie's Tarentaise, now part of La Plagne Tarentaise; home of the silver-lead mine worked from Roman times to 1973 and six La Plagne ski sites.
MacPherson strut
The MacPherson strut, also called MacPherson suspension, is an independent suspension combining a shock absorber inside a coil spring, first used in production by Ford around 1950.
Macquarie
Macquarie River (Wambuul Macquarie), NSW inland river rising near Bathurst, flowing northwest to the Barwon; named for Governor Lachlan Macquarie; feeds Burrendong Dam and the Macquarie Marshes. Distinct from Port Macquarie and Tasmania's Macquarie River.
Macquarie Group
Macquarie Group, also known as MacBank, is an Australian financial group and investment bank founded in 1969, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and known for pioneering infrastructure funds.
Macquarie Island
Macquarie Island, subantarctic Australian World Heritage island 1,500 km southeast of Tasmania; unique exposed mantle rocks; invasive rabbits, rats and mice eradicated by 2014; year-round research station.
Macquarie Marshes
Macquarie Marshes: ~200,000 ha intermittently flooded wetland complex on the lower Macquarie River, NSW, Australia; Ramsar-listed (19,850 ha, 1986/2000/2012); degraded by river regulation since Burrendong Dam (1967).
Macquarie Ridge
The Macquarie Ridge is a submarine ridge in the Southern Ocean, running about 1,600 km from the Puysegur Trench south of New Zealand along the Australian-Pacific plate boundary.
Macquarie University
Macquarie University: public university founded 1964 as Sydney's third metropolitan university, named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie; main Wallumattagal Campus at Macquarie Park with 40,000+ students.
Macquart relation
The Macquart relation is the observed link between a fast radio burst's dispersion measure and its host galaxy's redshift, established in a 2020 Nature study led by J.-P. Macquart.
Macrae F. Linton
Macrae F. Linton is a Vanderbilt University Medical Center physician-scientist studying macrophage cholesterol metabolism in atherosclerosis, and a 1997 recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award.
Macramé
Macramé is a loomless textile technique that knots cords into coarse lace or fringe, popular under Queen Victoria and revived in the 1960s and 1970s.