MAD

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Mad may refer to:

• Anger
• Madness, the state of being irrational or suffering from Mental illness
• Mad (band), a rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Mad (magazine), an American humor magazine and its various spinoffs:
  • MADtv, a sketch comedy television series
  • Mad Magazine Card Game
  • The Mad Magazine Game
• Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
• Mad River, various rivers

MAD may be an acronym for:

• Malevolent Agency of Destruction, a fictional evil organization led by Dr. Claw from the cartoon series Inspector Gadget
• M.A.D., a computer-controlled robot in the computer game Robot Arena 2: Design and Destroy
• MAD Movie, a Japanese fan-made video, much like an Anime Music Video. MAD can also describe the Japanese AMV community
• MAD programming language (short for Michigan Algorithm Decoder)
• MAD UK Ltd, a British clothing store chain
• Madrid Barajas International Airport, the IATA airport code
• Magnetic airborne detector
• Magnetic anomaly detector, a scientific instrument and anti-submarine warfare detection device
• Marketing and Design Service of the toy group of General Mills. See also Care Bears
• Maximal areal density
• Mean absolute deviation, a statistical measure of variability
• Median absolute deviation, a statistical measure of variability, more resistant to outliers
• Mean absolute distance, a mathematical function
• Meg and Dia, American indie rock band
• Methodical Accelerator Design. Particle accelerator simulation tool.
• Militärischer Abschirmdienst, the Military Counterintelligence division of the German Army
• Moroccan dirham, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Morocco
• MPEG Audio Decoder, an audio decompression software
• Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion, a technique used in X-ray crystallography
• Multiple Access Dialler, a dialer developed by Compuspec that can access a variety of telecom networks in case one service is not available
• Mutual assured destruction, a military doctrine and concept in international political relations
• MAD (music TV), a Greek music channel
• MAD (poem), a poem by the World War I poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
• MAD Studio, an architectural firm
• Museum of Arts & Design, located in New York City