Mad, mad, or MAD may refer to:
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 ...
, a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
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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) is ...
, a village in Hungary
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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
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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
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, 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
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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
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M.A.D. (punk band), a 1980s band, which later became Blast
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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, ...
, an American indie rock band
Albums
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''Mad'' (Raven EP), released in 1986
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''Mad'' (Hadouken! EP), released in 2009
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''Mad'' (GOT7 EP), released 2015
Songs
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"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'', 1968
* "Mad", by The Lemonheads from ''
Lick'', 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. ...
'', 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 televisio ...
, 2014
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"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
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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
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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
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Militärischer Abschirmdienst'', German military counterintelligence agency
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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 t ...
, 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.
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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 c ...
, 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
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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, especi ...
, a website
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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
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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
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MPEG Audio Decoder
MPEG Audio Decoder (MAD) is a GPL library
A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) mat ...
, software
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Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator, an astronomical instrument
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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 value, absolute Deviation (statistics), deviations from a central tendency, central point. It is a summary statistics, summary statistic of statistical dispersion or ...
, a measure of the variability of quantitative data
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Median absolute deviation
In statistics, the median absolute deviation (MAD) is a Robust statistics, robust measure of the statistical dispersion, variability of a univariate sample of quantitative data. It can also refer to the statistical population, population paramete ...
, a statistical measure of variability
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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, media ...
, a statistical measure of variability
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Mean absolute difference, a measure of statistical dispersion
Television and video
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Mad TV'', a 1995–2009 US series
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''Mad'' (TV series), 2010–2013, on Cartoon Network
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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
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''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 ...
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"M.A.D." (''Veronica Mars''), a 2005 episode
Other uses
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''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 t ...
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
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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
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Mandibuloacral dysplasia
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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
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MADD (disambiguation)
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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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