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mode
1[ mohd ]
noun
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.
- 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; a type or variation of a 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.
mode
2[ mohd ]
noun
- fashion or style in manners, dress, etc.:
He was much concerned to keep up with the latest mode.
- a light gray or drab color.
adjective
mode
/ məʊd /
noun
- a manner or way of doing, acting, or existing
- the current fashion or style
- music
- 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
- (in the music of classical Greece) any of the descending diatonic scales from which the liturgical modes evolved
- either of the two main scale systems in music since 1600
major mode
minor mode
- philosophy a complex combination of ideas the realization of which is not determined by the component ideas
- the quantitative mineral composition of an igneous rock
- physics one of the possible configurations of a travelling or stationary wave
- physics one of the fundamental vibrations
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
mode
- 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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Example Sentences
I cried for about an hour when we officially decided to change the date, but then I went into re-planning mode and felt a sense of relief.
You may be in crisis mode at the moment, but that is not a place you can stay forever.
Oakland, California-based Mighty Buildings came out of stealth mode, to the tune of $30 million in venture capital funding.
Hearing your angry words, aggressive tone, and raised voice, and seeing your furrowed brow, the onboard computer goes into “soothe” mode, as it’s been programmed to do when it detects that you’re angry.
An example of this is comparing data from your various modes of advertising.
Although not his most ambitious work, this novel is a wonderful example of Johnson operating in his most readable mode.
Slouching in her chair she is in defensive mode when describing the age of her latest lover.
Yet, the relationship between American politics and la mode is more fraught.
The Sunday shows were in full Ebola panic mode today, stoking fears that it could spread further in the United States.
So when the man grabbed her and threw her onto the floor, Monet went into survival mode.
This mode of learning promotes attention and prevents mind-wandering.
The mode of procession was a little out of the common order of such affairs; but so was the marriage.
The significance of the different varieties is more readily understood if one considers their mode of formation.
We find by research that smoking was the most general mode of using tobacco in England when first introduced.
In France the habit of snuffing was the most popular mode and to this day the custom is more general than elsewhere.
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Mode Vs. Median Vs. Mean Vs. Average
What’s the difference between mode, median, mean, and average?
In the context of mathematics and statistics, the mode of a set of values is the most frequently repeated value in the set. In contrast, the median is the middle number in a set of values when those values are arranged from smallest to largest. The word mean refers to what’s informally called the average—the sum of a set of values divided by the number of values.
The word average is of course also very commonly used in more general ways. In math, though, it’s helpful to use more specific terms when determining the most representative or common value in a set of numbers.
To illustrate the difference, let’s look at an example set of seven values: 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9.
The mode is simply the value that shows up the most. In the example set, the mode is 3, since it occurs twice and all the other values occur only once.
To get the mean of this set, you’d add up all the values (2+3+3+4+6+8+9=35) and then divide that total by the number of values (7), resulting in a mean of 5. This is what most people are referring to when they refer to the average of some set of numbers.
To find the median, you have to find the one that’s sequentially in the middle. In a set of seven numbers arranged in increasing value, the median is the fourth number (since there are three before and three after). In this set (2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9), the median is 4. When a set has an even number of values, the median is the mean of the two middle values.
Want to learn more? Read the full breakdown of the difference between mode, median, mean, and average.
Quiz yourself on mode vs. median vs. mean vs. average!
Should mode, median, mean, or average be used in the following sentence?
The most frequently repeated test score is 80, so it’s the _____ of the set.
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