Mic or MIC may refer to: *

Microphone A microphone, colloquially called a mic (), or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, hearing aids, public address systems for concert halls and publi ...

, an acoustic transducer

Places

Federated States of Micronesia The Federated States of Micronesia (, abbreviated FSM), or simply Micronesia, is an island country in Micronesia, a region of Oceania. The federation encompasses the majority of the Caroline Islands (excluding Palau) and consists of four Admin ...

, UNDP country code *

Miami Intermodal Center Miami Intermodal Center (MIC) is an intermodal passenger transport, intermodal rapid transit, commuter rail, local bus, and intercity bus transportation hub in Miami-Dade County, Florida, just outside the Miami city limits near the Grapeland ...

, a mega-transportation hub in Miami, Florida

People

* Mic (name), numerous people

Arts, entertainment, and media

M.I.C. (band) M.I.C. (MIC男团) is a five-member Chinese boy band, which started in 2006 and released a debut EP in October 2010. The band has won some of the most important Asian entertainment business awards, including the Top Chinese Music Awards, Shangha ...

, a Chinese band formed by Taihe Rye Music *

Mic (media company) Mic is an American internet and media company based in New York City that caters to millennials. Originally known as PolicyMic, it rose to prominence after its on-the-ground coverage of the Tunisian Revolution in 2011. In April 2014, the co ...

, a media company focused on news for millennials * Mic, an abbreviation for referencing the ''

Book of Micah The Book of Micah is the sixth of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. The book has seven chapters. Ostensibly, it records the sayings of Micah, whose name is ''Mikayahu'' (), meaning "Who is like Yahweh?", an 8th-century BCE prophet f ...

'' * ''

Made in Chelsea ''Made in Chelsea'' (abbreviated ''MIC'') is a British Scripted reality, structured-reality television series broadcast by E4 (TV channel), E4. ''Made in Chelsea'' chronicles the lives of affluent young people in the West London and South West a ...

'', a television series

Organizations

Business

* Metal Improvement Company, a company specializing in metal surface treatments * Merida Industry Co., Ltd., a bicycle manufacturing company in Taiwan *

Military Industries Corporation (Saudi Arabia) Military Industries Corporation (MIC or SAMIC; ) is a state-owned enterprise in Saudi Arabia founded in 1953. MIC became a subsidiary of Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) in 2017 following the latter's founding. Based in Riyadh, the M ...

, the main armament industry for the Saudi military *

Military Industry Corporation The Military Industry Corporation is the state-run defense corporation of Sudan. It is responsible for the production of a wide range of defence equipment, such as munitions, firearms, artillery etc. History The MIC was established by national ...

, the main armament industry for the Sudanese military * Myanmar Investment Commission, a government-appointed body *

Mortgage investment corporation Requires updating to reflect the current Income Tax Act and the growth of MICs that trade on the TSX. A mortgage investment corporation or MIC is an investment and lending company designed specifically for mortgage lending (primarily residential ...

, a Canadian investment and lending company *

Motorcycle Industry Council The Motorcycle Industry Council, or MIC, is a not-for-profit, national trade association representing manufacturers and distributors of motorcycles, scooters, motorcycle/ATV parts and accessories and members of allied trades in the United States, ...

, an American non-profit trade association * MIC (organization), a Russian construction organization

Government and politics

Malaysian Indian Congress The Malaysian Indian Congress ( abbrev: MIC; )，formerly known as Malayan Indian Congress, is a Malaysian political party. It is one of the founding members of the coalition Barisan Nasional, previously known as the Alliance, which was in pow ...

, a Malaysian political party *

Military–industrial complex The expression military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a country's military and the Arms industry, defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy. A driving fac ...

, the relationship between a nation's military forces, its arms industry, and government *

Military Intelligence Corps (Sri Lanka) The Military Intelligence Corps (MIC) is one of the corps of the Sri Lanka Army. It is responsible for clandestine and covert operations to gathering military intelligence, counter-intelligence, cyberwarfare, HUMINT, intelligence assessment, IST ...

, a Sri Lankan military corp that is responsible for gathering, analyzing, and distributing military intelligence *

Military Intelligence Corps (United States Army) The Military Intelligence Corps is the Military intelligence, intelligence branch of the United States Army. The primary mission of military intelligence in the U.S. Army is to provide timely, relevant, accurate, and synchronized intelligence ...

, the intelligence branch of the United States Army, responsible for gathering, analyzing, and distributing military intelligence *

Ministry of Information and Communication (South Korea) The Ministry of Information and Communication or MIC was a ministry of the government of South Korea. Its headquarters are located in Jongno-gu, central Seoul. The last minister was Rho Jun-hyong, who began serving in March 2006. The ministry wa ...

, a government agency *

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications The is a Cabinet (government), cabinet-level ministry in the Government of Japan. Its English name was Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications (MPHPT) prior to 2004. It is housed in the 2nd Building of the Centr ...

, a Japanese government agency

Other organizations

Marians of the Immaculate Conception The Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary () is a Catholic male Clergy, clerical religious congregation founded, 1670, in Poland. It is also known as Marians of the Immaculate Conception. Its ...

, a Roman Catholic clerical congregation *

Mary Immaculate College Mary Immaculate College (''Coláiste Mhuire gan Smál''), also known as MIC and Mary I, is a College of Education and Liberal Arts. Founded in 1898, the university level College of Education and the Liberal Arts is academically linked with the ...

, a college in Limerick, Ireland *

Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference The Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference or MIC is a secondary or more commonly used, high school athletic conference based in the Indianapolis Metropolitan area of Indiana. The conference was formed in 1996 in a time when independent schoo ...

, a high school athletic conference in Indiana, United States *

Midwest Independent Conference The Midwest Independent Conference (MIC) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, II and III Gymnastics, women's gymnastics conference. The MIC was established in 1991 for schools that sponsor women's gymnastics teams, but ...

, United States, NCAA women's gymnastics conference *

Multan Institute of Cardiology Multan Institute of Cardiology (MIC), is a hospital located in Multan city in Pakistan. It was established by Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, the former chief minister of Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab province, in 2005. History It was a project for the ...

, Pakistan

Science and medicine

Major immunogene complex The Major immunogene complex (MIC) is a gene sequence containing loci coding for antigens on lymphocyte surface (Ia) histocompatibility (H) antigens, products of immune responses, and components system proteins. The genes that code for immuno ...

, gene complex coding immune response *

Maximal information coefficient In statistics, the maximal information coefficient (MIC) is a measure of the strength of the linear or non-linear association between two variables ''X'' and ''Y''. The MIC belongs to the maximal information-based nonparametric exploration ( ...

, a statistical measure of association between variables *

Medical image computing Medical image computing (MIC) is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretic ...

, an interdisciplinary field *

Metal-induced crystallization Combined with certain metallic species, amorphous films can crystallize in a process known as metal-induced crystallization (MIC). The effect was discovered in 1969, when amorphous germanium (a-Ge) films crystallized at surprisingly low temperatur ...

, a method for turning amorphous silicon into polycrystalline silicon *

Metastable intermolecular composite Nano-thermite or super-thermite is a metastable intermolecular composite (MIC) characterized by a particle size of its main constituents, a metal fuel and oxidizer, under 100 nanometers. This allows for high and customizable reaction rates. Nano-th ...

, a type of reactive material in explosives research *

Methyl isocyanate Methyl isocyanate (MIC) is an organic compound with the molecular formula CH3NCO. Synonyms are isocyanatomethane and methyl carbylamine. Methyl isocyanate is an intermediate chemical in the production of carbamate pesticides and Haffmann Bromam ...

, a chemical compound used in pesticides *

Microbial corrosion Microbial corrosion, also known as microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC), microbially induced corrosion (MIC) or biocorrosion, occurs when microbes affect the electrochemical environment of the surface on which they are fixed. This usually ...

, or microbially-induced corrosion, corrosion caused or promoted by microorganisms *

Microscopium (constellation) Microscopium ("the Microscope") is a minor constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, one of twelve created in the 18th century by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille and one of several depicting scientific instruments. The name ...

, abbreviation Mic *

Minimum inhibitory concentration In microbiology, the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) is the lowest concentration of a chemical, usually a drug, which prevents visible ''in vitro'' cell growth, growth of bacteria or Fungus, fungi. MIC testing is performed in both diagnosti ...

, in microbiology, the lowest concentration of an antimicrobial that will inhibit growth of a microorganism * ''Morbus ischaemicus cordis'', Latin for

coronary artery disease Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), or ischemic heart disease (IHD), is a type of cardiovascular disease, heart disease involving Ischemia, the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to a build-up ...

Medically induced coma An induced comaalso known as a medically induced coma (MIC), barbiturate-induced coma, or drug-induced comais a temporary coma (a deep state of unconsciousness) brought on by a controlled dose of an anesthetic drug, often a barbiturate such as pe ...

Technology

Machine Identification Code Printer tracking dots, also known as printer steganography, DocuColor tracking dots, yellow dots, secret dots, or a machine identification code (MIC), is a digital watermarking, digital watermark which many color laser printing, laser printers a ...

, a watermark generated by some printers * Mandatory Integrity Control, a new security feature in Microsoft Windows Vista *

Intel MIC Xeon Phi is a discontinued series of x86 manycore processors designed and made by Intel. It was intended for use in supercomputers, servers, and high-end workstations. Its architecture allowed use of standard programming languages and applicati ...

, Intel's Many Integrated Core processor architecture *

Media Interface Connector An optical fiber connector is a device used to link optical fibers, facilitating the efficient transmission of light signals. An optical fiber connector enables quicker connection and disconnection than mechanical splice, splicing. They come i ...

, for fiber optics * Message Integrity Code, a cryptographic checksum used in wireless communications *

Micrometer (device) A micrometer, sometimes known as a micrometer screw gauge (MSG), is a device incorporating a calibrated screw for Accuracy and precision, accurate measurement of the size of components. It widely used in mechanical engineering, machining, metro ...

, a measuring tool *

Microscope A microscope () is a laboratory equipment, laboratory instrument used to examine objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye. Microscopy is the science of investigating small objects and structures using a microscope. Microscopic ...

, an instrument for optical magnification * Microsoft Innovation Center, Microsoft partners * Microwave integrated circuit, a type of integrated circuit

Other uses

Market Identifier Code The Market Identifier Code (MIC) (ISO 10383) is a unique identification code used to identify securities trading exchanges, regulated and non-regulated trading markets. The MIC is a four alphanumeric character code, and is defined in ISO 10383 by ...

, or ISO 10383, a unique identification code, which serves as a standard to identify securities trading exchanges, regulated and non-regulated trading markets *

Mi'kmaq language The Miꞌkmaq language ( ; ), or , is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 Miꞌkmaq in Canada and the United States; the total ethnic Miꞌkmaq population is roughly 20,000. The native name of the language is , or (in some ...

, by ISO 639 alpha-2 language code * Middle income country, a

developing country A developing country is a sovereign state with a less-developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to developed countries. However, this definition is not universally agreed upon. There is also no clear agreeme ...

Crystal Airport (Minnesota) Crystal Airport is a public airport named after the city of Crystal in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. Most of the airport is in the city of Crystal. Portions north of taxiway C (62nd Avenue) are in Brooklyn Park, and the north east ...

, by IATA code