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Revision as of 05:05, 3 October 2014 by 86.40.136.121 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Mode (etymology from Latin modus: "manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody") may mean:
Language
- Grammatical mood or mode, a category of verbal inflections that expresses an attitude of mind (e.g. the subjunctive)
- Rhetorical mode, a category of discourse, e.g. exposition, description, narration
- Narrative mode, the type of method voice and point of view used to convey a narrative
- Modes of persuasion, oratorical devices
- Literary mode, the general category of a literary work, e.g. the pastoral mode
Music
- A system of musical tonality, involving a type of scale coupled with a set of characteristic melodic behaviors
- Medieval modes (as opposed to ancient Greek modes)
- Gregorian mode, a system of modes used in Gregorian chant
- Medieval modes (as opposed to ancient Greek modes)
Mathematics
- Statistical mode, the most common value among a group
- Modes of convergence, a property of a series
- Modes of a linear field
Science
- Normal mode, patterns of vibration in acoustics, electromagnetic theory, etc.,
- Quasinormal mode, a type of energy dissipation of a perturbed object or field
- Starvation mode, a biological condition
Computation
- Mode (computer interface), distinct method of operation within a computer system, in which the same user input can produce different results depending of the state of the system
- A game mode, a mode used as a game mechanic in video games
- Data types in some programming languages (e.g., EL/1)
- Block cipher modes of operation, in cryptography
- Modes (Unix), permissions given to users and groups to access files and folders on Unix hosts
- MODE (command), a DOS and Windows command line utility for the configuration of devices and the console
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a method of digital communication
Popular culture
- Mode Records, a record label
- MODE Magazine, an out-of-print U.S. women's fashion magazine featuring plus-size clothing shot inVogue-like aesthetic
- Mode magazine, a fictional fashion magazine which is the setting for the ABC series Ugly Betty
- Fashion
- Explosive Mode, a 1998 album by San Quinn and Messy Marv
- Mode series, a quartet of novels by Piers Anthony
- The Devil's Mode, a collection of short stories by Anthony Burgess
Places
- Mode, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Illinois
- Mode, Banmauk, a village in Burma
==Other uses
- Transport mode, a means of transportation
- A technocomplex of stone tools
- Mode of production, a Marxist term for way of producing goods
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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