Lexic.us

Definition of Mode

1. Noun. How something is done or how it happens. "In an abrasive fashion"

2. Noun. A particular functioning condition or arrangement. "Switched from keyboard to voice mode"

3. Noun. A classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility.

4. Noun. Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker.

5. Noun. Any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave.

6. Noun. The most frequent value of a random variable.

Definition of Mode

1. n. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

Definition of Mode

1. Noun. (music) One of several ancient scales, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale ¹

2. Noun. A particular means of accomplishing something. ¹

3. Noun. (statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution ¹

4. Noun. (mathematics physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system. ¹

5. Noun. (computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data. ¹

6. Noun. Style or fashion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mode

1. a method of doing or acting [n -S]

Medical Definition of Mode

1. 1. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing. "The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found." (Jer. Taylor) "A table richly spread in regal mode." (Milton) 2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode. "The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode." (Macaulay) 3. Variety; gradation; degree. 4. Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter. "Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances." (Locke) 5. The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood. 6. Same as Mood. 7. The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc, of ancient Greek music. In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of whatever key, are recognised. 8. A kind of silk. See Alamode. Synonym: Method, manner. See Method. Origin: L. Modus a measure, due or proper measure, bound, manner, form; akin to E. Mete: cf. F. Mode. See Mete, and cf. Commodious, Mood in grammar, Modus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mode

modalists modalities modality modally modals modaraba modarabas modchip modchips moddable

modded modder modderite modders modding mode (current term) mode-locked mode of discourse mode of thought mode of transport

moded model model(a) model-organism model number model organism model organisms model solution model solutions modelbuilding

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