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iMac

iMac noun: one of a line of all-in-one Macintosh computers made by Apple Inc.

imac: one of a line of all-in-one Macintosh computers made by Apple Inc
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Noun

iMac (plural iMacs)

  1. (trademark) One of a line of all-in-one Macintosh computers made by Apple Inc.
    • 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.2016, Woody Leonhard, Windows 10 All-In-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 885
    • her face bathed in the blue light of her hypnotically addictive 24-inch iMac2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 115

Forms of iMac

pluraliMacs

Origin of iMac

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

Words formed from iMac

Questions about iMac

What does iMac mean?
IMac means one of a line of all-in-one Macintosh computers made by Apple Inc.
What part of speech is iMac?
IMac is a noun.
What is the plural of iMac?
The plural of iMac is iMacs.

Words near iMac in the dictionary

  1. imaam
  2. imaamate
  3. imaamates
  4. imaams
  5. Imabari
  6. iMac
  7. iMacintosh
  8. iMacQuarium
  9. iMacQuariums
  10. iMacs
  11. Imadejas

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