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. Compare attribute ( def. 9 ) .

Logic .

modality ( def. 3 ) .

mood 2 ( def. 2 ) .

Music . 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; scale.

Grammar . mood 2 ( def. 1 ) .

Statistics . the value of the variate at which a relative or absolute maximum occurs in the frequency distribution of the variate.

Petrography . the actual mineral composition of a rock, expressed in percentages by weight.

Physics . any of the distinct patterns of oscillation that a given periodically varying system can have.

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