1) Maximum Collision Assurance System
2) Low quality synthetic longitudinal stability system that guarantees you will lawn dart without immediate recognition and subsequent action of pitch trim runaway.
Manoeuvring characteristicsaugmentation system, or more appropriately, money comes above safety, due to Boeing rushing the 737 max into market while it was unsafe for commercial use all because of money.
M: Money
C: Comes
A: Above
S: Safety
The Boeing 737 maxcrashed because mcas was incorrectly programmed and was rushed into market. Hence mcas means: money comes above safety.
MCAS means money comes above safety due to Boeing hiding it and poorly coding it to read from a singleangle of attack (AoA) sensor to rush the 737 max into market, hence putting money above safety.
The jolt of fear you get when your car's lane-assist feature fights with you for steering wheel control. (Named for the Boeing 737 Max's infamous maneuvering control augmentation system that took away control from the pilot.)