Definitions for madness
ˈmæd nɪsmad·ness

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1. lunacy, madness, insanenessnoun

   obsolete terms for legal insanity

2. rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madnessnoun

   an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain

3. fury, rage, madnessnoun

   a feeling of intense anger

   "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage"

4. folly, foolishness, craziness, madnessnoun

   the quality of being rash and foolish

   "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness"

5. madness, rabidity, rabidnessnoun

   unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm

   "poetry is a sort of divine madness"

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1. madnessnoun

   The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.

2. madnessnoun

   rash folly

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Madnessnoun

   Etymology: from mad.

   1. Distraction; loss of understanding; perturbation of the faculties.

   Why, woman, your husband is in his old tunes again: he so rails against all married mankind, so curses all Eve’s daughters, and so buffets himself on the forehead, that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but tameness and civility to this distemper. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

   There are degrees of madness as of folly, the disorderly jumbling ideas together, in some more, some less. John Locke.

   2. Fury; wildness; rage.

   The power of God sets bounds to the raging of the sea, and restrains the madness of the people. Charles I .

   He rav’d with all the madness of despair,
   He roar’d, he beat his breast, and tore his hair. Dryden.

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1. MADNESS

   MADNESS (Multiresolution Adaptive Numerical Environment for Scientific Simulation) is a high-level software environment for the solution of integral and differential equations in many dimensions using adaptive and fast harmonic analysis methods with guaranteed precision based on multiresolution analysis and separated representations .There are three main components to MADNESS. At the lowest level is a petascale parallel programming environment that aims to increases programmer productivity and code performance/scalability while maintaining backward compatibility with current programming tools such as the message-passing interface and Global Arrays. The numerical capabilities built upon the parallel tools provide a high-level environment for composing and solving numerical problems in many (1-6+) dimensions. Finally, built upon the numerical tools are new applications with initial focus upon chemistry, , atomic and molecular physics, material science, and nuclear structure. It is open-source, has an object-oriented design, and is designed to be a parallel processing program for computers with up to millions of cores running already on the Cray XT5 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the IBM Blue Gene at Argonne National Laboratory. The small matrix multiplication (relative to large, BLAS-optimized matrices) is the primary computational kernel in MADNESS; thus, an efficient implement on modern CPUs is an ongoing research effort. . Adapting the irregular computation in MADNESS to heterogeneous platforms is nontrivial due to the size of the kernel, which is too small to be offloaded via compiler directives (e.g. OpenACC), but has been demonstrated for CPU–GPU systems . Intel has publicly stated that MADNESS is one of the codes running on the Intel MIC architecture but no performance data has been published yet. MADNESS' chemistry capability includes Hartree–Fock and density functional theory in chemistry (including analytic derivatives, response properties and time-dependent density functional theory with asymptotically corrected potentials ) as well as nuclear density functional theory and Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov theory. MADNESS and BigDFT are the two most widely known codes that perform DFT and TDDFT using wavelets . Many-body wavefunctions requiring six-dimensional spatial representations are also implemented (e.g. MP2). The parallel runtime inside of MADNESS has been used to implement a wide variety of features, including graph optimization . From a mathematical perspective, MADNESS emphasizes rigorous numerical precision without loss of computational performance . This is useful not only in quantum chemistry and nuclear physics, but also the modeling of partial differential equations .MADNESS was recognized by the R&D 100 Awards in 2011. It is an important code to Department of Energy supercomputing sites and is being used by both the leadership computing facilities at Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to evaluate the stability and performance of their latest supercomputers. It has users around the world, including the United States and Japan . MADNESS has been a workhorse code for computational chemistry in the DOE INCITE program at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and is noted as one of the important codes to run on the Cray Cascade architecture.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Madnessadjective

   the condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy

2. Madnessadjective

   frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly

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1. Madness

   The Madness is a self-titled album by the British band The Madness. In 1988, after the breakup of the original Madness, four of the original members recreated the band, adding "The" to its name. Since the new band did not include a bassist or drummer, guest musicians played bass, while a drum machine was used in place of a live drummer on most tracks. Also unlike previous Madness albums, the lead vocals were almost evenly shared between Suggs and Chas Smash. They released only this one album and two singles, which were less successful than the original band releases, and The Madness disbanded by the end of the year. Madness reformed with its original members for a reunion tour in 1992 and they have remained together since. "The Madness" reached # 66 in the UK, while the singles "I Pronounce You" reached # 44 and "What's That" # 92. The album was recorded at Liquidator Studios, and mixed at The Townhouse studio in London.

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1. madness

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of madness in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of madness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of madness in a Sentence

1. Luis Figueroa:

   First thing we need to do is set aside from this craziness law that we want to put in immigration. We cannot deport 12 million people. That's craziness, that's madness.

2. Edgar Allan Poe:

   Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

3. Ted Morgan:

   Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

4. L.F. Magister:

   People live so much in a world of appearances, that claim lack of character is madness.

5. Marco Rubio:

   It's not my job to tell you who to vote for, but I am going to tell you who I am going to vote for. And I'm gonna tell you why. I'm going to vote for Marco Rubio, our founding fathers did not give us a commander in chief to fill out March madness basketball brackets or to sample golf courses on the eastern seaboard.

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