MAD

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Mad or MAD may refer to:

• A slang term. Used as a substitute for very or awesome.
• The state of being insane.
• The state of being angry.
• Mad (magazine), an American humor magazine
• Mad River, various rivers
• Mad (band), a rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Mad (village), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
• "Mad" (song), a 2008 song by Ne-Yo
• Madrid Barajas Airport's IATA airport code
• MAD (poem), by the World War I poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
• MAD TV (Greece), a Greek music channel
• MAD Studio, an architectural firm
• MAD Movie, a Japanese fan-made video, much like an Anime Music Video. MAD can also describe the Japanese AMV community
• Moroccan dirham, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Morocco
• MAD (Shoes), a Singaporean shoe retailer

MAD may be an acronym for:

• Magnetic Audio Device, a brand of acoustic hailing device, initially designed at the request of the US military to deliver clear, intelligible commands over long distances
• Mutual assured destruction, a doctrine of military strategy
• MAD programming language (short for Michigan Algorithm Decoder)
• M.A.D. or Mastertronic Added Dimension, a 1980s computer software label owned by Mastertronic
• MAD Multiply and Add, a low level instruction for computer processors
• Magnetic airborne detector
• Magnetic anomaly detector, a scientific instrument and anti-submarine warfare detection device
• Malevolent Agency of Destruction, 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
• 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
• 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-wavelength anomalous dispersion, a technique used in X-ray crystallography
• Multiple Access Dialer, a dialer developed by Compuspec that can access a variety of telecom networks in case one service is not available
• 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
• Museum of Arts & Design, located in New York City

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