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mode (mōd)

noun

  1. a manner or way of acting, doing, or being; method or form
  2. Etymology: Fr < L modus

    customary usage, or current fashion or style, as in manners or dress
  3. Geol. the actual mineral composition of an unaltered igneous rock
  4. Gram. mood (sense )
  5. Logic
    1. modality or the form of a proposition with reference to its modality
    2. mood (sense )
  6. Metaphysics the form, or way of being, of something, as distinct from its substance
  7. Music
    1. the selection and arrangement of tones and semitones in a scale, esp. any of such arrangements in medieval church music
    2. a rhythmical system of the 13th cent.
    3. either of the two forms of scale arrangement in later music ( major mode and minor mode)
  8. Statistics the value, number, etc. that occurs most frequently in a given series

Etymology: ME moede < L modus, measure, manner, mode < IE base *med-, to measure: see medical

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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