Mad
Appearance
Mad, mad, or MAD may refer to:
Geography
[edit]- Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
- Mád, a village in Hungary
- Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, by IATA airport code
- Mad River (disambiguation), several rivers
Music
[edit]Bands
[edit]- Mad (band), a rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina
- M.A.D (band), a British boyband
- M.A.D. (punk band), a 1980s band, which later became Blast
- Meg and Dia, an American indie rock band
Albums
[edit]- Mad (Raven EP), released in 1986
- Mad (Hadouken! EP), released in 2009
- Mad (GOT7 EP), released 2015
Songs
[edit]- "Mad" (Ne-Yo song), 2008
- "Mad", by Dave Dudley from Talk of the Town, 1964
- "Mad", from Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre, 1968
- "Mad", by The Lemonheads from Lick, 1989
- "Mad", from the album Magnetic Man, 2010
- "Mad", by Cassie Steele, 2014
- "M・A・D" (Buck-Tick song), 1991
Organizations
[edit]- MAD Studio, an architectural firm
- Mad Computers, defunct American computer company
- Make A Difference, an Indian NGO
- Might and Delight, a Swedish video game development studio
- Militärischer Abschirmdienst, German military counterintelligence agency
- Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, US
- Mechanical Art and Design museum, in Stratford-upon-Avon
Science and technology
[edit]- MAD (programming language), for Michigan Algorithm Decoder
- MAD, a protein encoded by the MXD1 gene
- Magnetic anomaly detector, detects variations in Earth's magnetic field
- Maritime anomaly detection in Global Maritime Situational Awareness, for avoiding maritime collisions
- Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, a website
- Methodical Accelerator Design, a CERN scripting language
- Modified Atkins diet
- Model Autophagy Disorder, a variant of model collapse, the gradual degradation in the output of a generative artificial intelligence model trained on synthetic data intelligence
- Mothers against decapentaplegic, a protein
- MPEG Audio Decoder, software
- Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator, an astronomical instrument
- Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion, an X-ray crystallography technique
- Mitral annular disjunction, a structural abnormality of the heart
Statistics
[edit]- Mean absolute deviation, a measure of the variability of quantitative data
- Median absolute deviation, a statistical measure of variability
- Maximum absolute deviation, a statistical measure of variability
- Mean absolute difference, a measure of statistical dispersion
Television and video
[edit]- Mad TV, a 1995–2009 US series
- The Mad, a 2007 Canadian horror/comedy film
- Mad (TV series), 2010–2013, on Cartoon Network
- MAD TV (Greece), a music channel
- M.A.D. (Indian TV programme), 2005–2010, children's educational programme
- M.A.D., organization in Inspector Gadget
- "M.A.D." (Veronica Mars), a 2005 episode
Other uses
[edit]- Mad (magazine), an American humor magazine
- Mad, a term for insanity used chiefly in British English
- Mad, a term for anger used chiefly in US English
- Madagascar, IOC country code
- Mutual assured destruction, nuclear warfare deterrence concept
- Mandibuloacral dysplasia
- Moroccan dirham, the currency of Morocco by ISO 4217 currency code
- mad, the ISO 639-2 code for the Madurese language
See also
[edit]- MADD (disambiguation)
- Rabies, (Latin rabies for "madness")
- Mad, a variant of the Hindi-Urdu word for alcohol, madhu
- Madness (disambiguation)
- List of people known as the Mad