MAD
Encyclopedia
Mad or MAD may refer to:
- Infection with rabiesRabiesRabies is a viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals. It is zoonotic , most commonly by a bite from an infected animal. For a human, rabies is almost invariably fatal if post-exposure prophylaxis is not administered prior to the onset of severe symptoms...
, from the Latin term for madness - Moroccan dirhamMoroccan dirhamThe dirham is the currency of Morocco. The plural form is pronounced darahim, although in French and English "dirhams" is commonly used. Its ISO 4217 code is "MAD". It is subdivided into 100 santimat . The dirham is issued by the Bank Al-Maghrib, the central bank of Morocco...
, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Morocco - The state of being angry
- The state of insanityInsanityInsanity, craziness or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including becoming a danger to themselves and others, though not all such acts are considered insanity...
- A variant of the Hindi-Urdu word for alcohol, madhuMadhuMadhu may refer to:* Madhu, a term in Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit, and other languages for honey and alcohol * Madhu, in Hindu mythology, one of the asura brothers Madhu-Kaitabh, killed by Lord Vishnu...
, pronounced with a soft "d" and cognate with the word mead
Literature and publications
- Mad (magazine)Mad (magazine)Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. Launched as a comic book before it became a magazine, it was widely imitated and influential, impacting not only satirical media but the entire cultural landscape of the 20th century.The last...
, an American humor magazine
Television and video
- Mad (TV series)Mad (TV series)MAD is an American animated sketch comedy series created by Kevin Shinick and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Based upon the magazine of the same name, each episode is a collection of short animated parodies of television shows, movies, games, celebrities and other media using various types of...
, 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
- MADtvMADtvMADtv is an American sketch comedy television series. It licensed the name and logo of Mad, but otherwise had no connection with the humor magazine outside the animated Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin cartoon shorts and images of Alfred E. Neuman that the show featured during the late 1990s. Its first...
, an American sketch comedy television series
Music
- Mad (band)Mad (band)Mad is a hard rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was formed in 1997.-Biography:Formed in 1996 Tomy Casparri.vocalista. - Diego Castelli.bajo - Julián Méndez Morgan.guitarra - Pelusa Suffloni.1° guitarra...
, a rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina - "Mad" (song)Mad (song)"Mad" is a song by American pop/R&B singer Ne-Yo. It is the third single from his album Year of the Gentleman and was produced by Stargate and himself.-Music video:...
, a 2008 song by Ne-Yo - "Mad", a song by Magnetic Man from the album Magnetic ManMagnetic Man (album)Magnetic Man is the debut album by the English Dubstep supergroup of the same name. It was released on 8 October 2010 on Columbia Records. It features vocals provided by different guest vocalists, including Katy B and Ms...
Places
- Mad (village)Mad (village)Mad is a village and municipality in the Dunajská Streda District in the Trnava Region of south-west Slovakia.-History:The village was first recorded in 1254 as Mod, in 1260 as Nagmod. Until the end of World War I, it was part of Hungary and fell within the Dunaszerdahely district of Pozsony County...
, a village in the Dunajská Streda District of Slovakia - Mad River (disambiguation), various rivers
- Madrid Barajas Airport's IATA airport code
Acronym
- Magnetic anomaly detectorMagnetic anomaly detectorA magnetic anomaly detector is an instrument used to detect minute variations in the Earth's magnetic field. The term refers specifically to magnetometers used by military forces to detect submarines ; the military MAD gear is a descendent of geomagnetic survey instruments used to search for...
, 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 GadgetInspector GadgetInspector Gadget is an animated television series that revolves around the adventures of a clumsy, simple-witted cyborg detective named Inspector Gadget – a human being with various bionic gadgets built into his body. Gadget's arch-nemesis is Dr...
- Mandibular advancement device, an appliance worn in the mouth to treat obstructive sleep apnea or snoring
- Market Abuse Directive, European company lawEuropean company lawEuropean company law is an emerging field of legal scholarship, which concerns the formation, operation and insolvency of corporations within the European Union. There is presently no substantive European company law as such, although a host of minimum standards are applicable to companies...
on insider dealing and market manipulation - Mean absolute difference, a measure of statistical dispersion
- Median absolute deviationMedian absolute deviationIn statistics, the median absolute deviation is a robust measure of the variability of a univariate sample of quantitative data. It can also refer to the population parameter that is estimated by the MAD calculated from a sample....
, 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 MIFAREMIFAREMIFARE is the NXP Semiconductors-owned trademark of a series of chips widely used in contactless smart cards and proximity cards. According to the producers, billions of smart card chips and many millions of reader modules have been sold...
contactless chips - Militärischer AbschirmdienstMilitärischer AbschirmdienstThe Militärischer Abschirmdienst or more officially Amt für den Militärischen Abschirmdienst , is one of the three federal intelligence agencies in Germany, responsible for military counterintelligence...
, the Military Counterintelligence division of the German Army - MPEG Audio DecoderMPEG Audio DecoderMPEG Audio Decoder is a GPL library to decode files that have been encoded with an MPEG audio codec, written by Robert Leslie and produced by Underbit Technologies. It was developed as a new implementation, on the ISO/IEC standards....
, an audio decompression software - Multi-conjugate Adaptive optics DemonstratorMulti-conjugate Adaptive optics DemonstratorMulti-conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator , is a device that allows the ESO VLT to observe celestial objects better through Earth's atmosphere. MAD provides the observer with an image free from the blurring effect created by atmospheric turbulence...
, 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 dispersionMulti-wavelength anomalous dispersionMulti-wavelength anomalous diffraction is a technique used in X-ray crystallography that facilitates the determination of the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules via solution of the phase problem...
, a technique used in X-ray crystallography - Museum of Arts & Design, located in New York City
- Mutual assured destructionMutual assured destructionMutual Assured Destruction, or mutually assured destruction , is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of...
, 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 decapentaplegicMothers against decapentaplegicMothers against decapentaplegic is a protein from the SMAD family that was discovered in Drosophila.The SMAD proteins are homologs of both the Drosophila protein "mothers against decapentaplegic" and the C. elegans protein SMA. The name is a combination of the two...
, a protein of the SMADSMAD (protein)SMADs are intracellular proteins that transduce extracellular signals from transforming growth factor beta ligands to the nucleus where they activate downstream TGF-β gene transcription....
family.