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| mode [ mōd ] (plural modes) |
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1. manner or form: a way, manner, or form, e.g. a way of doing something, or the form in which something exists
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2. style or fashion: a style or fashion, e.g. in art or in dress
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3. machine setting: a setting or function on a machine such as a computer
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4. type of automatic behavior: a way of behaving, especially one that is instinctive, familiar, or habitual
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informal humorous
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  in work mode
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5. music set pattern of notes: a musical scale that is one of the seven patterns of notes that can be played over an octave using only the white notes of the piano keyboard. Some modes were widely used in European religious, folk, and art music until around 1600, after which they were largely replaced by keys, while others were used in ancient Greece.
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6. mathematics statistics most frequent value: the value that has the highest frequency within a statistical range
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7. logic modal status of proposition: the modal status of a proposition, e.g. its being necessary or merely possible
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8. physics radio frequency: one of the radio frequencies characteristic of a given resonator or oscillator
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9. philosophy combination of ideas: a combination of ideas that cannot be worked out merely by analysis of its components
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| [14th century. < Latin modus "measure"] |
