Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a mode.
- adjective Grammar Of, relating to, or expressing the mood of a verb.
- adjective Music Of, relating to, characteristic of, or composed in any of the modes typical of medieval church music.
- adjective Philosophy Of or relating to mode without referring to substance.
- adjective Logic Expressing or characterized by modality.
- adjective Statistics Of or relating to a statistical mode or modes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or affected by a mode; relating to the mode or manner, and not to the substance.
- Specifically
- Of or pertaining to a grammatical mode.
- noun A modal proposition.
- Of or pertaining to or having the numerical value of a statistical mode.
- In petrography, in the quantitative system of classification of igneous rocks (see
rock ), relating to the mode. - Of or pertaining to the mode of a curve. See
mode , 11. - In mathematics, most frequently occurring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) A modal auxiliary.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.
- adjective (Logic & Metaph.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought, such as the modes of possibility or obligation.
- adjective (Gram.) Pertaining to or denoting mood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or relating to a
mode ormodus - adjective grammar of, relating to, or describing the
mood of aclause - adjective music of, relating to, or composed in the musical
modi by which anoctave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient - and inmedieval ecclesiastical music - adjective logic of, or relating to the
modality between propositions - adjective statistics relating to the
statistical mode . - adjective computing Having separate
modes in which user input has different effects. - adjective computer science requiring immediate user interaction (often used as modal dialog or modal window)
- adjective metaphysics Relating to the
form of a thing rather to any of its attributes - noun logic A modal
proposition - noun linguistics A modal form, notably a modal
auxiliary .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
- adjective relating to or expressing the mood of a verb
- adjective of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
- noun an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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According to the modal analogue, a cat or a person or a table would be a ˜transworld individual™ with ˜modal parts™ in different possible worlds, and not wholly present in any of them.)
Transworld Identity Mackie, Penelope 2006
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Hence the term modal jazz, which is used to describe the music on "Kind of Blue."
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I agree with you and deeply disagree with what you call modal realism, because I do not believe that mathematical objects and systems exist, in anything like the same meaning of existence that the physical universe exists.
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This new style of playing became known as modal jazz, in reference to the modal scales that musicians used for these extended jams over a tonal center.
Matthew Kohut: Meltdown: The Year Jazz Threw Out the Rules 2009
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This is a perfectly objective fact, and it has a certain modal force (if the particles had moved away from each other, the forces would have fallen off with the square of the distance between them).
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He favored a style of musical collaboration he called modal improvisation.
Archive 2008-06-01 Bruce Schauble 2008
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He favored a style of musical collaboration he called modal improvisation.
Attentiveness, Flexibility, Collaboration Bruce Schauble 2008
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This new style of playing became known as modal jazz, in reference to the modal scales that musicians used for these extended jams over a tonal center.
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This new style of playing became known as modal jazz, in reference to the modal scales that musicians used for these extended jams over a tonal center.
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This new style of playing became known as modal jazz, in reference to the modal scales that musicians used for these extended jams over a tonal center.
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According to independent analysis, the average Dutch home now costs €452,000 – more than 10 times the modal, or most common, Dutch salary of €44,000.
‘Everything’s just … on hold’: the Netherlands’ next-level housing crisis Jon Henley 2024
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