Mace

Mace

Mace can refer to:
*Mace (club), a weapon with a heavy head on a solid shaft used to bludgeon opponents
*Mace (company), a construction firm in the UK
*Mace (measurement), an English term for a traditional Chinese measurement of weight
*Mace (spice), a cooking spice obtained from dried covering of the nutmeg fruit seed.
*Mace (spray), a brand of tear gas, often used by police
*Mace (store), a convenience store chain in the United Kingdom and Ireland

;Places
*Macé, a commune of Normandy, France
**Hill 262 in Normandy, physical feature known as "The Mace" during World War II
*Mace, Indiana, a small town in the United States

;Other uses
*Ceremonial mace, an ornamented mace used in civic ceremonies
*In a debate, competitions can be named "The Mace" after the ceremonial mace used in parliaments
*"", a fighting game for arcades and the Nintendo 64
*Mace Windu, a character in the Star Wars movies
*MGM-13 Mace, a U.S. tactical surface-to-surface missile

;MACE (acronym)
* [http://www.macearchive.org.uk/ MACE] , the Media Archive for Central England
*MACE (codec), (Macintosh Audio Compression and Expansion) an audio encoding system
*Mar Athanasius College of Engineering (MACE), an Indian engineering college
*Malone antegrade continence enema; see Mitrofanoff appendicovesicostomy
*MACE (gaming convention), Mid-Atlantic Convention Expo gaming convention
*MACE, Member American College of Epidemiology
*Metropolitan Architectural Consortium for Education. "See Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme (CLASP)
* Major Adverse Cardiac Event. Criteria for evaluating cardiac treatments such as angioplasty.

ee also

*Mase (pronounced "mace"), an American rapper


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  • Mace — bezeichnet eine Boden Boden Rakete, siehe Martin Mace Orte: Gemeinde Macé in der französischen Region Basse Normandie, siehe Macé (Orne) Gemeinde Mače in der kroatischen Gespanschaft Krapina Zagorje, siehe Mače in den Vereinigten Staaten Mace… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Mace — Macé Macé Administration Pays France Région Basse Normandie Département Orne Arrondissement Alençon Canton Sées …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Macé — is a town and commune in the Orne département , in Normandy, northwestern France.External links* [http://www.ign.fr/affiche rubrique.asp?rbr id=1087 CommuneId=57831 Macé sur le site de l Institut géographique national] *… …   Wikipedia

  • Mace — • A short, richly ornamented staff Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Mace     Mace     † Catho …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Mace — Mace, n. [OF. mace, F. masse, from (assumed) L. matea, of which the dim. mateola a kind of mallet or beetle, is found.] 1. A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Mače — Pays  Croatie Comitat Krapina Zagorje Population (municipalité) 2 715 hab. (2001) …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Mace — Mace, n. [F. macis, L. macis, macir, Gr. ?; cf. Skr. makaranda the nectar or honey of a flower, a fragrant mango.] (Bot.) A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See {Nutmeg}. [1913 Webster] Note: {Red mace} is the aril of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • MACÉ (J.) — MACÉ JEAN (1815 1896) Publiciste français, qui consacra toute son existence à la vulgarisation pédagogique. Originaire d’une famille prolétarienne, Jean Macé se destine à l’enseignement et débute comme instituteur. À partir de 1848, il est… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Mace — (n.3) chemical spray originally used in riot control, 1966, technically Chemical Mace, a proprietary name (General Ordnance Equipment Corp, Pittsburgh, Pa.), probably so called for its use as a weapon, in reference to MACE (Cf. mace) (1). The… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Mace — Mace, prop. n. [Trademark.] A chemical preparation containing tear gas in a solvent, packaged in the form of a spray, and used to temporarily incapacitate people, such as rioters or criminals, by causing intense eye and skin irritation; also… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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