mode1

[mohd] /moʊd/
noun
1.
a manner of acting or doing; method; way:
modern modes of transportation.
2.
a particular type or form of something:
Heat is a mode of motion.
3.
a designated condition or status, as for performing a task or responding to a problem:
a machine in the automatic mode.
4.
Philosophy.
  1. appearance, form, or disposition taken by a thing, or by one of its essential properties or attributes.
  2. (in the philosophy of Spinoza) one of the nonessential qualifications of God, contingent upon other modes.
    Compare attribute (def 9).
5.
Logic.
  1. modality (def 3).
  2. mood2 (def 2).
6.
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.
7.
Grammar, mood2 (def 1).
8.
Statistics. the value of the variate at which a relative or absolute maximum occurs in the frequency distribution of the variate.
9.
Petrography. the actual mineral composition of a rock, expressed in percentages by weight.
10.
Physics. any of the distinct patterns of oscillation that a given periodically varying system can have.
Origin
1250-1300; Middle English mod(e) (< Old French) < Latin modus measured amount, limit, manner, kind, tone
Synonyms
1. See method.

mode2

[mohd] /moʊd/
noun
1.
fashion or style in manners, dress, etc.:
He was much concerned to keep up with the latest mode.
2.
a light gray or drab color.
Origin
1635-45; < French < Latin modus; see mode1
Examples from the web for mode
  • Bicycles began to look like a very quaint and outdated mode of transportation.
  • In 1988 mode, you don't get to save the game, ever.
  • Before entering this mode, the satellite was tested thoroughly.
  • The driver slipped into four-wheel-drive mode.
  • Such a mode of reforming, possibly, might take up many years.
  • Your camera's portrait mode will blur the background.
  • They are still in what they call "exploratory mode" and have not asked publishers to commit to contributing recipes.
  • The fourth, unleashed mode, is unlocked after completion of the game.
  • You start by putting the speaker in pairing mode.
  • Manual-shift mode was easy to use.
British Dictionary definitions for mode

mode

/məʊd/
noun
1.
a manner or way of doing, acting, or existing
2.
the current fashion or style
3.
(music)
  1. any of the various scales of notes within one octave, esp any of the twelve natural diatonic scales taken in ascending order used in plainsong, folk song, and art music until 1600
  2. (in the music of classical Greece) any of the descending diatonic scales from which the liturgical modes evolved
  3. either of the two main scale systems in music since 1600: major mode, minor mode
4.
(logic, linguistics) another name for modality (sense 3), mood2 (sense 2)
5.
(philosophy) a complex combination of ideas the realization of which is not determined by the component ideas
6.
that one of a range of values that has the highest frequency as determined statistically Compare mean3 (sense 4), median (sense 6)
7.
the quantitative mineral composition of an igneous rock
8.
(physics) one of the possible configurations of a travelling or stationary wave
9.
(physics) one of the fundamental vibrations
Word Origin
C14: from Latin modus measure, manner
Word Origin and History for mode
n.

"manner," late 14c., "kind of musical scale," from Latin modus "measure, extent, quantity; proper measure, rhythm, song; a way, manner, fashion, style" (in Late Latin also "mood" in grammar and logic), from PIE root *med- "to measure, limit, consider, advise, take appropriate measures" (see medical). Meaning "manner in which a thing is done" first recorded 1660s.

"current fashion," 1640s, from French mode "manner, fashion, style" (15c.), from Latin modus "manner" (see mode (n.1)).

mode in Medicine

mode (mōd)
n.

  1. The value or item occurring most frequently in a series of observations or statistical data.

  2. The number or range of numbers in a mathematical set that occurs the most frequently.

mode in Science
mode
(mōd)
The value that occurs most frequently in a data set. For example, in the set 125, 140, 172, 164, 140, 110, the mode is 140. Compare arithmetic mean, average, median.

mode in Culture

mode definition


In statistics, the most frequently appearing value in a set of numbers or data points. In the numbers 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 4, 9, 6, 8, and 6, the mode is 6, because it appears more often than any of the other figures. (See average; compare mean and median.)

mode in Technology


An object-oriented language.
["The Programming Language Mode: Language Definition and User Guide", J. Vihavainen, C-1987-50, U Helsinki, 1987].
[Jargon File]
(1994-10-21)


1. A general state, usually used with an adjective describing the state. Use of the word "mode" rather than "state" implies that the state is extended over time, and probably also that some activity characteristic of that state is being carried out. "No time to hack; I'm in thesis mode."
In its jargon sense, "mode" is most often attributed to people, though it is sometimes applied to programs and inanimate objects. In particular, see hack mode, day mode, night mode, demo mode, fireworks mode, and yoyo mode; also chat.
2. More technically, a mode is a special state that certain user interfaces must pass into in order to perform certain functions. For example, in order to insert characters into a document in the Unix editor "vi", one must type the "i" key, which invokes the "Insert" command. The effect of this command is to put vi into "insert mode", in which typing the "i" key has a quite different effect (to wit, it inserts an "i" into the document). One must then hit another special key, "ESC", in order to leave "insert mode". Nowadays, modeful interfaces are generally considered losing but survive in quite a few widely used tools built in less enlightened times.
[Jargon File]
(1994-12-22)