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| mo·dal [ mṓd'l ] |
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1. grammar expressing grammatical mood: used to describe verbs and auxiliary verbs expressing a grammatical mood such as possibility or necessity.
See also modal auxiliary
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2. music relating to musical modes: relating to or using a mode, especially instead of a major or minor scale
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3. logic describing logical modalities: describes propositions involving necessity or probability, or those relating to knowledge, belief, and obligation
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noun (plural mo·dals) |
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grammar
Same as modal auxiliary
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| [Mid-16th century. Directly or via French< medieval Latin modalis< Latin modus "measure"] |
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 mo·dal·ly adverb |
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