| MAC | Mobile Assault Cannon; a series of massive battleship-like mecha used by the human RDF and REF forces. |
| Macross Island | Island in the Pacific where the alien spaceship craches on. Humanity rebuilds the spaceship and name it Super Dimensional Fortress One (SDF-1).
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| Manga | In English, generally used to mean Japanese comic books. Occasionally also used (even by the Japanese) to refer to animation (as in Manga Video).
Pronounced: "mahn-ga".
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| Mecha | Comes from the Japanese word for mechanical, meka, which in turn came from English. It usually shows up in the credits of anime as "Mecha design", being the folks who design the look of the mechanical stuff in that anime. Among American anime fans, it is usually used a little more specifically to refer to the big robots that are so common in anime, but it can also be used to mean mechanical stuff in general (including cars, spaceships, and giant robots as well).
Mecha - pronounced 'meh ka', like the place.
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| Micronian | Zentraedi term for a human. |
| MODAT | MObile DAtabase Terminal; the transforming motorcycle mecha from Robotech: The Movie. |
