iMac

See also: imać

English

Etymology

First appears in 1998, from i- (“internet”) +‎ Mac (“Macintosh”).

Noun

iMac (plural iMacs)

1. (trademark) One of a line of all-in-one Macintosh computers made by Apple Inc.
   • 2016, Woody Leonhard, Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 885:

     When you deal with iPhones and iPads (and the iCloud, iMacs, iTVs, iPods, and all those other iThingies), you're living in a walled garden. Apple controls it from the beginning to end.

   • 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 115:

     her face bathed in the blue light of her hypnotically addictive 24-inch iMac

Derived terms

• iMacintosh
• iMacquarium

Related terms

• eMac
• iBook
• iPod
• Power Mac

References

• Leander Kahney (2009), “Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different”, Cult of Mac.

Further reading

• iMac on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• mica, CIMA, CMIA, aMCI, -amic, Cima, ACMI, cami, cima, amic, Maci, Mica, -icam

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

iMac

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English iMac.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj.mak/
• Rhymes: -ajmak
• Syllabification: i‧Mac

Noun

iMac m inan or m animal

1. (computing) iMac (one of a line of all-in-one Macintosh computers made by Apple Inc.)

Declension

Declension of iMac

	singular	plural
nominative	iMac	iMaci
genitive	iMaca	iMaców
dative	iMacowi	iMacom
accusative	iMac/iMaca	iMaci
instrumental	iMakiem	iMacami
locative	iMacu	iMacach
vocative	iMacu	iMaci

Further reading

• iMac in Polish dictionaries at PWN