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) is ...

, 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 * ...

, 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), 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, ...

, 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'', 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, 2014 * "M・A・D" (Buck-Tick song), 1991

Organizations

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, 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'', 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

* 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 c ...

, 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 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 * Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator, 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

* Mean absolute deviation, a measure of the variability of quantitative data *

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 *

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 * Mean absolute difference, a measure of statistical dispersion

Television and video

* '' Mad TV'', 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'' * "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 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 *

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 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 ...