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Geography

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Mad (village) Mad ( hu, Nagymad, ) is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia. Geography The municipality lies at an altitude of 114 metres and covers an area of 7.714 km². History In the 9 ...
, a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia *
Mád Mád ( yi, מאדע ''Made'') is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County in northeastern Hungary. The former Jewish synagogue in Mád was restored between 2000 and 2004 with aid from the World Monuments Fund World Monuments Fund (WMF) i ...
, a village in Hungary *
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport ( es, link=no, Aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas ) , commonly known as Madrid–Barajas Airport, is the main international airport serving Madrid in Spain. At in area, it is the second-largest ai ...
, by IATA airport code *
Mad River (disambiguation) Mad River may refer to: Places Canada *Mad River (British Columbia), a river of British Columbia * Mad River (Ontario), a river of Ontario United States *Mad River (California) *Mad River, California, a community in Trinity County, California *M ...
, several rivers


Music


Bands

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Mad (band) Mad is a hard rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina. They debuted in 1997. Biography Formed in 1996, the band consists of Tomy Casparri (lead vocals), Diego Castelli (bass), Julián Méndez Morgan (guitar), Pelusa Suffloni (guitar) and Rodrigo ...
, a rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina *
M.A.D (band) M.A.D were a British boyband consisting of Michael Sutthakorn, Dan Lewis and Ben "AB" Pryer. The band was originally formed in May 2013. George David of Geoma Media was appointed management. The original band included Aiden Hancock before Ben P ...
, a British boyband * M.A.D. (punk band), a 1980s band, which later became Blast *
Meg and Dia Meg & Dia is an American rock band formed in 2004. It was founded by sisters Meg and Dia Frampton before becoming a five-piece act (renamed Cowards Courage and released the CD ''Straight Out of a Story Book in Las Vegas'') where they started, w ...
, an American indie rock band


Albums

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


Songs

* "Mad" (Ne-Yo song), 2008 * "Mad", by
Dave Dudley Dave Dudley (born David Darwin Pedruska; May 3, 1928 – December 22, 2003) was an American country music singer best known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his semi-slurred bass. His signature song was "Six Day ...
from ''Talk of the Town'', 1964 * "Mad", from ''
Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre ''The Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre'' is an album by Harpers Bizarre, released in September 1968. Two bonus tracks were added to the 2001 Sundazed Records, Sundazed CD reissue of this title. They had previously been the two sides of a single: ...
'', 1968 * "Mad", by The Lemonheads from ''
Lick Lick may refer to: * Licking, the action of passing the tongue over a surface Places * Lick (crater), a crater on the Moon named after James Lick * 1951 Lick, an asteroid named after James Lick * Lick Township, Jackson County, Ohio, United State ...
'', 1989 * "Mad", from the album ''
Magnetic Man Magnetic Man is an English electronic music project from London, consisting of dubstep producers and DJs Benga, Skream and Artwork (previously known as Menta). The trio first met in the late 1990s at the Big Apple Records store in Croydon. The ...
'', 2010 * "Mad", by
Cassie Steele Cassandra Rae Steele (born December 2, 1989) is a Canadian actress and singer known for portraying Manny Santos on '' Degrassi: The Next Generation'' and Abby Vargas on '' The L.A. Complex''. In 2014, she played Sarah in the MTV horror televis ...
, 2014 * "M・A・D" (Buck-Tick song), 1991


Organizations

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MAD Studio MAD Architects (sometimes referred to as MAD or MAD Studio) is an architectural design firm based in Beijing, China, with offices in Los Angeles, New York City, and Rome. MAD Architects is currently led by Ma Yansong, Dang Qun and Yosuke Hayano. ...
, an architectural firm *
Make A Difference Make A Difference (MAD) is an Indian non-profit organisation, working to ensure better outcomes for children in orphanages and shelters across India. Make A Difference works with nearly 3460 children in 67 shelter homes across 23 cities in India, ...
, an Indian NGO *
Might and Delight Might and Delight is a Swedish video game development studio and publisher based in Stockholm. The studio was established in 2010 and is best known for the ''Shelter'' series. History Might and Delight formed in 2010, comprising a team of 11 wh ...
, a Swedish video game development studio * ''
Militärischer Abschirmdienst The Military Counterintelligence Service (german: Militärischer Abschirmdienst; MAD) is one of the three federal intelligence agencies in Germany, and is responsible for military counterintelligence. The other two are the ''Bundesnachrichtendiens ...
'', German military counterintelligence agency *
Museum of Arts and Design The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), based in Manhattan, New York City, collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. In its exhibitions and educational programs, the mus ...
, New York City, US * Mechanical Art and Design museum, in
Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon (), commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, north-we ...


Science and technology

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MAD (programming language) MAD (Michigan Algorithm Decoder) is a programming language and compiler for the IBM 704 and later the IBM 709, IBM 7090, IBM 7040, UNIVAC 1107, UNIVAC 1108, Philco 210-211, and eventually the IBM S/370 mainframe computers. Developed in 1959 at ...
, for Michigan Algorithm Decoder * MAD, a protein encoded by the
MXD1 MAD protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''MXD1'' gene. MAD-MAX dimerization protein belongs to a subfamily of MAX-interacting proteins. This protein competes with MYC for binding to MAX to form a sequence-specific DNA-binding c ...
gene. *
Magnetic anomaly detector A magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) is an instrument used to detect minute variations in the Earth's magnetic field. The term refers specifically to magnetometers used by military forces to detect submarines (a mass of ferromagnetic material crea ...
, detects variations in Earth's magnetic field * Maritime anomaly detection in
Global Maritime Situational Awareness Global Maritime Situational Awareness (GMSA) is defined in thU.S. National Concept of Operations for Maritime Domain Awareness, December 2007 as "the comprehensive fusion of data from every agency and by every nation to improve knowledge of the mari ...
, for avoiding maritime collisions *
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (MAD) is a website created in 1997 by Scott W. Williams of the University at Buffalo, SUNY dedicated to promoting and highlighting the contributions of members of the African diaspora to mathematics, especia ...
, a website *
Methodical Accelerator Design A charged particle accelerator is a complex machine that takes elementary charged particles and accelerates them to very high energies. Accelerator physics is a field of physics encompassing all the aspects required to design and operate the equipm ...
, a CERN scripting language *
Modified Atkins diet The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate dietary therapy that in conventional medicine is used mainly to treat hard-to-control (refractory) epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than ca ...
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Mothers against decapentaplegic Mothers against decapentaplegic is a protein from the SMAD family that was discovered in ''Drosophila''. During ''Drosophila'' research, it was found that a mutation in the gene in the mother repressed the gene decapentaplegic in the embryo. The ...
, a protein *
MPEG Audio Decoder MPEG Audio Decoder (MAD) is a GPL library for decoding files that have been encoded with an MPEG audio codec. It was written by Robert Leslie and produced by Underbit Technologies. It was developed as a new implementation, on the ISO/IEC standar ...
, software *
Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD) is an instrument that allowed the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope to observe celestial objects with most of the atmosphere's blurring removed. As other adaptive optics systems ...
, an astronomical instrument *
Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion Multi-wavelength anomalous diffraction (sometimes Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion; abbreviated MAD) is a technique used in X-ray crystallography that facilitates the determination of the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules ...
, an X-ray crystallography technique


Statistics

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Mean absolute deviation The average absolute deviation (AAD) of a data set is the average of the absolute deviations from a central point. It is a summary statistic of statistical dispersion or variability. In the general form, the central point can be a mean, median, m ...
, a measure of the variability of quantitative data *
Median absolute deviation In statistics, the median absolute deviation (MAD) is a robust measure of the variability of a univariate sample of quantitative data. It can also refer to the population parameter that is estimated by the MAD calculated from a sample. For a un ...
, a statistical measure of variability *
Maximum absolute deviation The average absolute deviation (AAD) of a data set is the average of the absolute deviations from a central point. It is a summary statistic of statistical dispersion or variability. In the general form, the central point can be a mean, median, ...
, a statistical measure of variability * Mean absolute difference, a measure of statistical dispersion


Television and video

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Mad TV ''Mad TV'' (stylized as ''MADtv'') is an American sketch comedy television series originally inspired by '' Mad'' magazine. In its initial run, it aired on Fox from 1995 to 2009. After a one-off reunion show in 2015 to celebrate the twentiet ...
'', a 1995–2009 US series * ''Mad'' (TV series), 2010–2013, on Cartoon Network *
MAD TV (Greece) MAD TV (also known as MAD) is a Greek television network that broadcasts music related programming including video clips, music news, and interviews as well as concert footage. It was the first music station in Greece, launched on June 6, 1996, ...
, a music channel * ''M.A.D.'' (Indian TV programme), 2005–2010, children's educational programme * M.A.D., organization in ''
Inspector Gadget ''Inspector Gadget'' is a media franchise that began in 1983 with the DIC Entertainment animated television series ''Inspector Gadget''. Since the original series, there have been many spin-offs based on the show, including additional animated s ...
'' * "M.A.D." (''Veronica Mars''), a 2005 episode


Other uses

* ''Mad'' (magazine), an American humor magazine * Mad, a term for
insanity Insanity, madness, lunacy, and craziness are behaviors performed by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity can be manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person or persons becoming a danger to themselves or to ...
used chiefly in British English * Mad, a term for
anger Anger, also known as wrath or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat. A person experiencing anger will often experience physical effects, su ...
used chiefly in US English *
Mutual assured destruction Mutual assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would cause the ...
, nuclear warfare deterrence concept *
Mandibuloacral dysplasia Mandibuloacral dysplasia (MAD) is a rare autosomal recessive syndrome characterized by mandibular hypoplasia, delayed cranial suture closure, dysplastic clavicles, abbreviated and club-shaped terminal phalanges, acroosteolysis, atrophy of the skin ...
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Moroccan dirham The Moroccan dirham ( ar, درهم, translit=dirham, ary, درهم, translit=derhem; ber, ⴷⵔⵀⵎ, translit=drhm; sign: DH; code: MAD) is the official monetary currency of Morocco. It is issued by the Bank Al-Maghrib, the central bank of ...
, the currency of Morocco by ISO 4217 currency code * mad, the ISO 639-2 code for the
Madurese language Madurese (; Pegon: ) is a language of the Madurese people, native to the Madura Island and Eastern Java, Indonesia; it is also spoken by migrants to other parts of Indonesia, namely the eastern salient of Java (comprising Pasuruan, Surabaya, M ...


See also

* MADD (disambiguation) *
Rabies Rabies is a viral disease that causes encephalitis in humans and other mammals. Early symptoms can include fever and tingling at the site of exposure. These symptoms are followed by one or more of the following symptoms: nausea, vomiting, vi ...
, (Latin ''rabies'' for "madness") * Mad, a variant of the Hindi-Urdu word for alcohol,
madhu Madhu (Sanskrit: ) is a word used in several Indo-Aryan languages meaning ''honey'' or ''sweet''. It is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*médʰu'', whence English '' mead''. Metaphorical use ''Madhu'' has been used for millennia si ...
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Madness (disambiguation) Madness or The Madness may refer to: Emotion and mental health * Anger, an intense emotional response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat * Insanity, a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns * ...
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List of people known as the Mad The Mad is an epithet applied to: *Haakon the Crazy or the Mad (died 1214), Norwegian earl * Othenin, Count of Montbéliard (died 1338) *Charles VI of France (1369–1422), King of France * Jan II the Mad (1435–1504), Duke of Żagań-Przewóz, ...
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