Mode

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Mode (Latin: modus meaning "manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody") may refer to:

Language

• Grammatical mode or grammatical mood, a category of verbal inflections that expresses an attitude of mind
  • Imperative mood
  • Subjunctive mood
• Rhetorical modes, a category of discourse
  • Narrative mode, the type of method voice and point of view used to convey a narrative
  • Modes of persuasion, oratorical devices
• Mode (literature), the general category of a literary work, e.g. the pastoral mode

Music

• Mode (music), a system of musical tonality involving a type of scale coupled with a set of characteristic melodic behaviors
  • Modus (medieval music)
    • Gregorian mode, a system of modes used in Gregorian chant (as opposed to ancient Greek modes or Byzantine octoechos)
• "Mode", a song by PRhyme from Southpaw: Music from and Inspired By the Motion Picture

Mathematics

• Mode (statistics), 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.
  • Longitudinal mode
  • Transverse mode
  • Global mode
• 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 and business

• Mode Records, a record label
• Mode.com and Mode Media
• 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, Banmauk, a village in Burma
• Mode, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Illinois, United States

Other uses

• IL Mode, a former name of Bærum SK, a Norwegian association football club
• Transport mode, a means of transportation
• A technocomplex of stone tools
• Mode of production, a Marxist term for way of producing goods
• HSwMS Mode, several ships of the Swedish Navy

See also

• Modal (disambiguation)
• Modality (disambiguation)