- a manner of acting or doing; method; way: modern modes of transportation.
- a particular type or form of something: Heat is a mode of motion.
- a designated condition or status, as for performing a task or responding to a problem: a machine in the automatic mode.
- Philosophy.
- appearance, form, or disposition taken by a thing, or by one of its essential properties or attributes.
- (in the philosophy of Spinoza) one of the nonessential qualifications of God, contingent upon other modes.
- Logic.
- any of various arrangements of the diatonic tones of an octave, differing from one another in the order of the whole steps and half steps; a type or variation of a scale.
- mood2 (def. 1).
- the value of the variate at which a relative or absolute maximum occurs in the frequency distribution of the variate.
- the actual mineral composition of a rock, expressed in percentages by weight.
- any of the distinct patterns of oscillation that a given periodically varying system can have.
- fashion or style in manners, dress, etc.: He was much concerned to keep up with the latest mode.
- a light gray or drab color.
- See entry at à la mode.
- a manner or way of doing, acting, or existing
- the current fashion or style
- music
- any of the various scales of notes within one octave, esp any of the twelve natural diatonic scales taken in ascending order used in plainsong, folk song, and art music until 1600
- (in the music of classical Greece) any of the descending diatonic scales from which the liturgical modes evolved
- either of the two main scale systems in music since 1600
- logic linguistics another name for modality (def. 3), mood 2 (def. 2)
- a complex combination of ideas the realization of which is not determined by the component ideas
- that one of a range of values that has the highest frequency as determined statistically
- the quantitative mineral composition of an igneous rock
- one of the possible configurations of a travelling or stationary wave
- one of the fundamental vibrations
