MAD

Mad or MAD may refer to:

• Infection with rabies, from the Latin term for madness
• Moroccan dirham, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Morocco
• The state of being angry
• The state of insanity
• A variant of the Hindi-Urdu word for alcohol, madhu, pronounced with a soft "d" and cognate with the word mead

Contents 1 Businesses and companies 2 Media and entertainment 2.1 Literature and publications 2.2 Television and video 2.3 Music 3 Places 4 Acronym 5 See also

Businesses and companies

• MAD Studio, an architectural firm

Media and entertainment

Literature and publications

• Mad (magazine), an American humor magazine

Television and video

• Mad (TV series), a television series on Cartoon Network based on the magazine
• MAD Movie, a Japanese fan-made video, much like an Anime Music Video. MAD can also describe the Japanese AMV community
• MAD TV (Greece), a Greek music channel
• MADtv, an American sketch comedy television series

Music

• Mad (band), a rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina
• "Mad" (song), a 2008 song by Ne-Yo
• "Mad", a song by Magnetic Man from the album Magnetic Man

Places

• Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
• Mad River (disambiguation), various rivers
• Madrid Barajas Airport's IATA airport code

Acronym

• Magnetic anomaly detector, a scientific instrument and anti-submarine warfare detection device
• M.A.D., a fictional evil organization led by Dr. Claw from the cartoon series Inspector Gadget
• Mandibular advancement device, an appliance worn in the mouth to treat obstructive sleep apnea or snoring
• Market Abuse Directive, European company law on insider dealing and market manipulation
• Mean absolute difference, a measure of statistical dispersion
• Median absolute deviation, a statistical measure of variability, more resistant to outliers than other measures
• Meg and Dia, American indie rock band
• MAD (programming language), for Michigan Algorithm Decoder, a computer programming language
• MIFARE Application Directory, a data structure on MIFARE contactless chips
• Militärischer Abschirmdienst, the Military Counterintelligence division of the German Army
• MPEG Audio Decoder, an audio decompression software
• Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator, astronomical method of using multiple guide stars and deformable mirrors to sense and correct for the distortions produced by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere
• Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion, a technique used in X-ray crystallography
• Museum of Arts & Design, located in New York City
• Mutual assured destruction, a doctrine of military strategy
• Mastertronic's Added Dimension (or "Mastertronic Added Dimension"), a sub-label owned by defunct UK software publisher Mastertronic
• Make A Difference, an Indian NGO
• Mothers against decapentaplegic, a protein of the SMAD family

See also

• List of people known as the Mad

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