# Mad

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**Mad**, **mad**, **MAD** or **M. A. D.** may refer to:

## Geography

- [Mad (village)](/source/Mad_(village)), a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia
- [Mád](/source/M%C3%A1d), a village in Hungary
- [Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport](/source/Adolfo_Su%C3%A1rez_Madrid%E2%80%93Barajas_Airport), by IATA airport code
- [Mad River (disambiguation)](/source/Mad_River_(disambiguation)), several rivers

## Music

### Bands

- [Mad (band)](/source/Mad_(band)), Argentinian hard rock band from Buenos Aires
- [M.A.D (band)](/source/M.A.D_(band)), British boyband from London, England
- [M.A.D. (punk band)](/source/M.A.D._(punk_band)), American hardcore punk band from Santa Cruz, California; later known as Blast
- [Meg and Dia](/source/Meg_and_Dia), American indie rock band from Draper, Utah

### Albums

- [*Mad* (Got7 EP)](/source/Mad_(Got7_EP)), 2015
- [*Mad* (Hadouken! EP)](/source/Mad_(Hadouken!_EP)), 2009
- [*Mad* (Raven EP)](/source/Mad_(Raven_EP)), 1986
- *[Mad!](/source/Mad!)*, album by Sparks, 2025

### Songs

- ["Mad" (song)](/source/Mad_(song)), by Ne-Yo, 2008
- "Mad", by [Cassie Steele](/source/Cassie_Steele), 2014
- "Mad", by [Dave Dudley](/source/Dave_Dudley) from *Talk of the Town*, 1964
- "Mad", by Harpers Bizarre from *[Secret Life of Harpers Bizarre](/source/Secret_Life_of_Harpers_Bizarre)*, 1968
- "Mad", by Isyana Sarasvati from *[Paradox](/source/Paradox_(Isyana_Sarasvati_album))*, 2017
- "Mad", by The Lemonheads from *[Lick](/source/Lick_(album))*, 1989
- "Mad", by Magnetic Man from *[Magnetic Man](/source/Magnetic_Man_(album))*, 2010
- "Mad", by Renee Rapp from *[Bite Me](/source/Bite_Me_(album))*, 2025
- "M・A・D", by Buck-Tick from *[Kurutta Taiyou](/source/Kurutta_Taiyou)*, 1991

## Organizations

- [MAD Studio](/source/MAD_Studio), an architectural firm
- [Mad Computers](/source/Mad_Computers), defunct American computer company
- [Make A Difference](/source/Make_A_Difference), an Indian NGO
- [Might and Delight](/source/Might_and_Delight), a Swedish video game development studio
- *[Militärischer Abschirmdienst](/source/Milit%C3%A4rischer_Abschirmdienst)*, German military counterintelligence agency

### Museums

- [Museum of Arts and Design](/source/Museum_of_Arts_and_Design), New York City, US
- Mechanical Art and Design museum, in [Stratford-upon-Avon](/source/Stratford-upon-Avon#Museums_and_Shakespeare's_houses)
- [Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris](/source/Mus%C3%A9e_des_Arts_D%C3%A9coratifs,_Paris)

## Science and technology

- [MAD (programming language)](/source/MAD_(programming_language)), for Michigan Algorithm Decoder
- MAD, a protein encoded by the [MXD1](/source/MXD1) gene
- [Magnetic anomaly detector](/source/Magnetic_anomaly_detector), detects variations in Earth's magnetic field
- Maritime anomaly detection in [Global Maritime Situational Awareness](/source/Global_Maritime_Situational_Awareness), for avoiding maritime collisions
- [Mathematicians of the African Diaspora](/source/Mathematicians_of_the_African_Diaspora), a website
- [Methodical Accelerator Design](/source/Methodical_Accelerator_Design), a CERN scripting language
- [Modified Atkins diet](/source/Modified_Atkins_diet)
- Model Autophagy Disorder, a variant of [model collapse](/source/Model_collapse), the gradual degradation in the output of a generative artificial intelligence model trained on synthetic data intelligence
- [Mothers against decapentaplegic](/source/Mothers_against_decapentaplegic), a protein
- [MPEG Audio Decoder](/source/MPEG_Audio_Decoder), software
- [Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator](/source/Multi-conjugate_Adaptive_optics_Demonstrator), an astronomical instrument
- [Multi-wavelength anomalous dispersion](/source/Multi-wavelength_anomalous_dispersion), an X-ray crystallography technique
- [Mitral annular disjunction](/source/Mitral_annular_disjunction), a structural abnormality of the heart

## Statistics

- [Mean absolute deviation](/source/Mean_absolute_deviation), a measure of the variability of quantitative data
- [Median absolute deviation](/source/Median_absolute_deviation), a statistical measure of variability
- [Maximum absolute deviation](/source/Maximum_absolute_deviation), a statistical measure of variability
- [Mean absolute difference](/source/Mean_absolute_difference), a measure of statistical dispersion

## Television and video

- *[Mad TV](/source/Mad_TV)*, a 1995–2009 US series
- *[The Mad](/source/The_Mad)*, a 2007 Canadian horror/comedy film
- [*Mad* (TV series)](/source/Mad_(TV_series)), 2010–2013, on Cartoon Network
- [MAD TV (TV channel)](/source/MAD_TV_(TV_channel)), a music channel
- [*M.A.D.* (Indian TV programme)](/source/M.A.D._(Indian_TV_programme)), 2005–2010, children's educational programme
- M.A.D., organization in *[Inspector Gadget](/source/Inspector_Gadget_(1983_TV_series))*
- ["M.A.D." (*Veronica Mars*)](/source/M.A.D._(Veronica_Mars)), a 2005 episode

## Other uses

- [*Mad* (magazine)](/source/Mad_(magazine)), an American humor magazine
- [*Mad* (manga)](/source/Mad_(manga)), a post-apocalyptic manga series written by Yusuke Otori
- Mad, a term for [insanity](/source/Insanity) used chiefly in British English
- Mad, a term for [anger](/source/Anger) used chiefly in US English
- [Mary Andrews Denison](/source/Mary_Andrews_Denison) (1826–1911) American author, who wrote under these initials
- [Madagascar](/source/Madagascar), IOC country code
- [Mutual assured destruction](/source/Mutual_assured_destruction), nuclear warfare deterrence concept
- [Mandibuloacral dysplasia](/source/Mandibuloacral_dysplasia)
- [Moroccan dirham](/source/Moroccan_dirham), the currency of Morocco by ISO 4217 currency code
- mad, the ISO 639-2 code for the [Madurese language](/source/Madurese_language)

## See also

- [MADD (disambiguation)](/source/MADD_(disambiguation))
- [Mad TV (disambiguation)](/source/Mad_TV_(disambiguation))
- [Rabies](/source/Rabies), (Latin *rabies* for "madness")
- Mad, a variant of the Hindi-Urdu word for alcohol, [madhu](/source/Madhu)
- [Madness (disambiguation)](/source/Madness_(disambiguation))
- [List of people known as the Mad](/source/List_of_people_known_as_the_Mad)

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