mode
mode Lexical Profile
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• noun
A particular way, manner, or method in which something occurs, is experienced, or is done.
"Railways remain an efficient and environmentally friendly mode of transportation."
A distinct operational state or functional setting of a device, machine, or computer program.
"Please switch your phone to silent mode before the lecture begins."
A prevailing fashion, style, or current custom in clothing, behavior, or art.
"Wide-brimmed hats were the prevailing mode among aristocrats in the seventeenth century."
In statistics, the value or number that occurs most frequently in a given set of data.
"The students calculated the mean, median, and mode of the test scores."
In music, any of several distinct arrangements of the diatonic scale characterized by a specific pattern of intervals.
"The composer wrote the folk melody in the Dorian mode to give it an ancient quality."
• Rhymes for mode
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from French mode and directly from Latin modus, meaning 'measure, extent, quantity, or manner'. It shares the same Indo-European root (*med-, 'to take appropriate measures') as modern, modest, and modify.
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