MAD

Mad or MAD may refer to:

The state of being insane.
The state of being angry.
Mad (magazine), an American humor magazine
The Danish word for food
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
MAD Incubator, a Mobile Applications Developers Incubator at Malaysia TPM
Moroccan dirham, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Morocco
MAD (Shoes), a Singaporean shoe retailer

M.A.D. may be an acronym for:

Mutual assured destruction, a doctrine of military strategy
Museum of Arts & Design, located in New York City
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
Mandibular advancement device, an appliance worn in the mouth to treat obstructive sleep apnea or snoring
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
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
Michigan Algorithm Decoder 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
Multiple Access Dialer, a dialer developed by Compuspec that can access a variety of telecom networks in case one service is not available
Multiply and Add, a low level instruction for computer processors
Multiple Attribute Dependent, a mildly derogative term used to describe a character in a Role-playing game whose abilities are derived from a multitude of sources, and is thus harder to enhance compared to characters who draw their abilities from a single source.

Translation

The word "MAD" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, Esperanto, French, Italian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Dutch, Japanese, Swedish.

Translation in Ripuarian: MAD (Watt ėßß datt?).