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mode Noun

— A mode is a specific way of doing something. The study combines two different research modes: oral history and written history. The machine is in warm-up mode right now. A modern city offers many different modes of transport from bicycle lanes to high speed trains. Modern medicine must be seen as part of the capitalist mode of production. There is a difference in English between casual and formal modes of speech. — A mode is a fashion or style. She was always dressed in the latest mode. — A mode is a specific type or form of something. Heat is a mode of energy transfer, like work, not a substance or other seawater property. — A mode is specific a kind scale. The Mixolydian mode is a good way for inducing a bluesey kind of mood. — The mode is the number that occurs most often in a group of numbers. In a normal distribution, with large sets, the mean, median and mode will typically be the same value. — A mode is specific a kind of clause that shows how the speaker feels about it. Modes show whether something is true, probably true, a wish, etc. Usually called mood. In Finnish, for example, the conditional mode is used both in the main clause and the subordinate. — The mode of a rock is the different minerals in it. — A mode is a specific pattern of wave movement. Under normal circumstances, there is no coupling between the two modes, which have different propagation constants.