MAD

MAD or Mad may refer to:

Organizations

• MAD Studio, an architectural firm
• Make A Difference, an Indian NGO
• Militärischer Abschirmdienst, the military counterintelligence division of the German Army
• Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, US

Media and entertainment

Print magazine

• Mad (magazine), an American humor magazine

Television and video

• Mad (TV series), a television series on Cartoon Network based on the magazine
• "M.A.D." (Veronica Mars), a 2005 episode of the American television series Veronica Mars
• MAD TV (Greece), a Greek music channel
• Mad TV, an American sketch comedy television series
• MAD Movie, a Japanese fan-made video
• M.A.D., the evil organization run by Doctor Claw in Inspector Gadget

Music

• Mad (Raven EP), released in 1986
• Mad (Hadouken! EP), released in 2009
• Mad (GOT7 EP), released 2015

Bands

• Mad (band), a rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina
• M.A.D (band), a British boyband
• M.A.D. (punk band), 1980s band, which later became Blast
• Meg and Dia, American indie rock band

Songs

• "M・A・D" (Buck-Tick song), released in 1991
• "Mad" (Ne-Yo song), released in 2008
• "Mad", a 1964 song by Dave Dudley from Talk of the Town
• "Mad", a 1968 song by Harpers Bizarre from Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre
• "Mad", a 1989 song by The Lemonheads from Lick
• "Mad", a 2010 song by Magnetic Man from the album Magnetic Man
• "Mad", a 2014 song by Cassie Steele

Places

• Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
• Mád, a village in Hungary
• Mad River (disambiguation), several rivers
• Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (IATA airport code), Spain

Science and technology

• MAD (programming language), for Michigan Algorithm Decoder, a computer programming language
• Magnetic anomaly detector, a scientific instrument and anti-submarine warfare detection device
• Mandibular advancement device, an appliance worn in the mouth to treat obstructive sleep apnea or snoring
• Methodical Accelerator Design, a CERN scripting language for particle accelerator design and analysis of optics and beam dynamics.
• Mothers against decapentaplegic, a protein of the SMAD family
• MPEG Audio Decoder, audio decompression software
• Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator, an astronomical method
• Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion, a technique used in X-ray crystallography
• Maritime anomaly detection, an area of scientific study within Global Maritime Situational Awareness aimed at avoiding maritime collisions
• MIFARE Application Directory, a data structure on MIFARE contactless chips

Statistics

• Mean absolute deviation, a measure of the variability of quantitative data
• Mean absolute difference, a measure of statistical dispersion
• Median absolute deviation, a statistical measure of variability, more resistant to outliers than other measures
• Minimum absolute deviation, also known as least absolute deviations

Other uses

• Mutual assured destruction, a doctrine of military strategy
• Moroccan dirham (ISO 4217 code), the currency of Morocco
• Market Abuse Directive, a European company law on insider dealing and market manipulation
• Mastertronic's Added Dimension (or "Mastertronic Added Dimension"), a sub-label owned by defunct UK software publisher Mastertronic
• Mad, the state of having anger
• Mad, the state of insanity

See also

• MADD (disambiguation)
• Rabies, (Latin rabies for "madness")
• Mad, a variant of the Hindi-Urdu word for alcohol, madhu
• Anime music video (Japanese: Movie Anime Dōjinshi)
• Madness (disambiguation)
• List of people known as the Mad