mode
noun
how something is done or how it happens
“her dignified manner”
“his rapid manner of talking”
a particular functioning condition or arrangement
“switched from keyboard to voice mode”
a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
Synonymsmodalityverb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
Synonymsmusical modethe most frequent value of a random variable
Synonymsmodal value
Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University
