Mode - Definition

n 1: how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified
manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode
of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a
lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" [syn:
manner, mode, style, way, fashion]
2: a particular functioning condition or arrangement; "switched
from keyboard to voice mode"
3: a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they
claim necessity or possibility or impossibility [syn:
modality, mode]
4: verb inflections that express how the action or state is
conceived by the speaker [syn: mood, mode, modality]
5: any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes
within an octave [syn: mode, musical mode]
6: the most frequent value of a random variable [syn: mode,
modal value]