Mad, mad, or MAD may refer to:

Geography

* Mad (village), 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, 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

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) Blast (stylized as BL'AST!) is an American punk rock band formed in 1983 in Santa Cruz, California. After breaking up in 1991, they reunited in 2001 and again in 2013. To date, Blast has released three original studio albums (the latest being ...

, a 1980s band, which later became Blast * Meg and Dia, 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'', 2010 * "Mad", by Cassie Steele, 2014 * "M・A・D" (Buck-Tick song), 1991

Organizations

* MAD Studio, an architectural firm * Make A Difference, 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, 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

* MAD (programming language), for Michigan Algorithm Decoder * MAD, a protein encoded by the MXD1 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, for avoiding maritime collisions * Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, a website * Methodical Accelerator Design, a CERN scripting language * Modified Atkins diet *

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, an X-ray crystallography technique

Statistics

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 The mean absolute difference (univariate) is a Statistical dispersion#Measures of statistical dispersion, measure of statistical dispersion equal to the average absolute difference of two independent values drawn from a probability distribution. ...

, a measure of statistical dispersion

Television and video

* ''

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), 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

* ''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 ...

* Moroccan dirham, the currency of Morocco by ISO 4217 currency code * mad, the ISO 639-2 code for the Madurese language