MAD

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See also: mad, mäd, and Mad

Translingual

Symbol

MAD

  1. (international standards) ISO 4217 currency code for the Moroccan dirham.

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English

Noun

MAD (countable and uncountable, plural MADs)

  1. Initialism of mutual assured destruction or mutually assured destruction.
    • 2005 February 7, Peter Preston, “A nuclear Iran is not the problem”, in The Guardian‎:
      [T]he only bombs anyone dropped—on Hiroshima and Nagasaki—were Uncle Sam's message to non-nuclear Japan. MAD was salvation. MAD was security. MAD was the way of life most of us grew up with, the prevailing logic of uneasy peace. So whatever became of our mad, mad world?
    • 2005 February 24, “Muon-assured defence”, in The Economist‎, →ISSN:
      But the American government worries that MAD-style deterrence will no longer work. Terrorists, for example, might not care about the threat of destruction.
  2. Initialism of magnetic anomaly detector.
  3. (genetics) Initialism of mothers against decapentaplegic.
  4. (astrophysics) Acronym of magnetically-arrested disc (a type of black hole accretion disc).
    Coordinate term: SANE
  5. (medicine, ENT, dental, prosthetics) Initialism of mandibular advancement device.

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Proper noun

MAD

  1. (programming) Acronym of Michigan algorithm decoder, a programming language, a variant of ALGOL, developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan.

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Japanese

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Etymology

From English mad (“crazy”).

Pronunciation

Noun

MAD(マッド) • (maddo) 

  1. (Internet slang) a genre of video, originating in Japan, featuring mash-ups of media from different sources; or, such a video

Derived terms

Spanish

Proper noun

MAD m

  1. Abbreviation of Madrid.
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