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MAC stands for media access control, with a MAC Address used to describe a unique identifier of a computer. Every computer or device on a network has a unique identifier, with that number used to send data to other computers on a network.
While an IP address is a unique number for computers using the Internet Protocol for communication, the MAC address is the unique number assigned to the computer’s hardware.