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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.
EXPANDPhilosophy.
a.
appearance, form, or disposition taken by a thing, or by one of its essential properties or attributes.
b.
(in the philosophy of Spinoza) one of the nonessential qualifications of God, contingent upon other modes. Compare attribute (def. 9).
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.
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Petrography. the actual mineral composition of a rock, expressed in percentages by weight.
10.
COLLAPSEPhysics. 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
1250–1300; Middle English mod(e) (< Old French ) < Latin modus measured amount, limit, manner, kind, tone
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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.
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Word Origin & History
mode
"current fashion," 1640s, from Fr. mode, from L. modus "manner" (see mode (1)).
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Medical Dictionary
mode (mōd)
n.
The value or item occurring most frequently in a series of observations or statistical data.
The number or range of numbers in a mathematical set that occurs the most frequently.
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Science Dictionary
mode  (mōd) Pronunciation Key
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. |
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Cultural Dictionary
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.)
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