MAD

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MAD, a name or acronym, may refer to:

• anger
• MAD, an American humor magazine
• MADtv, a sketch comedy television series based on that magazine
• MAD, Mexican Association of Drifting
• Mad, a rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina
• MAD Studio, an architectural firm
• Mutual assured destruction, a military theory
• Moroccan dirham, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Morocco
• Madrid Barajas International Airport, the IATA airport code
• MPEG Audio Decoder, an audio decompression software
• Michigan Algorithm Decoder, a programming language
• Magnetic anomaly detector, a scientific instrument and anti-submarine warfare detection device
• Mean Absolute Distance, a mathematical function
• Mean Absolute Deviation, a statistical variable
• Mothers Against Dial-up.
• Maximal Areal Density
• Magnetic airborne detector
• MAD, a Greek music channel
• Militärischer Abschirmdienst, the Military Counterintelligence division of the German Army
• MAD UK Ltd, a British clothing store chain
• Marketing and Design Service of the toy group of General Mills. See also: Care Bears
• M.A.D., a computer-controlled robot in Robot Arena 2: Design and Destroy
• Mad, a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
• MAD (poem) - A poem by the World War I poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
• Military Air Distress
• MAD dialler — Multiple Access Dialler for gaining access to different telecom networks should one service not be available
• MAD, or the Moulin à Danses de Lausanne, is a well-known night club in Lausanne, Switzerland
• Museum of Arts & Design, Manhattan, New York City, USA
• In certain parts of the US, used as an interjection to overemphasise something — for example, "That party was Mad fun".

See also: madness; mad cow; rabies (as in mad dog)