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MAD
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Appendix:Variations of "mad"
Translingual
Symbol
Moroccan dirham
Anagrams
mul adm AMD
English
Noun
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en mutual assured destruction,mutually assured destruction.
en http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/07/iran.comment Peter Preston A nuclear Iran is not the problem 2005-02-07 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? https://web.archive.org/web/20261020144421/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/feb/07/iran.comment 20 October 2026
en 2005-02-24 Muon-assured defence The Economist https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2005/02/24/muon-assured-defence 0013-0613 But the American government worries that MAD-style deterrence will no longer work. Terrorists, for example, might not care about the threat of destruction. https://web.archive.org/web/20230726235858/https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2005/02/24/muon-assured-defence 26 July 2023
en w:magnetic anomaly detector.
en genetics en w:mothers against decapentaplegic.
en astrophysics en magnetically-arrested disc a type of black hole accretion disc).
en SANE
en medicine ENT dental prosthetics en mandibular advancement device.
Derived terms
en SMAD
Proper noun
en programming language en Michigan algorithm decoder a programming language, a variant of ALGOL, developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan.
Anagrams
en adm MDA Adm. adm. dam' dam DAM AMD ADM DMA Adm
en 3-letter abbreviations
en Black holes Electromagnetism Nuclear warfare
Japanese
ja:+ムービー
Etymology
From ja en mad crazy.
Pronunciation
マッド
Noun
マッド
ja internet slang a genre of video, originating in Japan, featuring mash-ups of media from different sources; or, such a video
Derived terms
音%MAD おと %マッド
音%声%MAD おん%せい %マッド
ja terms written in foreign scripts
Spanish
Proper noun
m
es Madrid