Modality vs. Mode
Difference Between Modality and Mode
Modalitynoun
The fact of being modal.
Modenoun
(music) One of several ancient Greek scales.
Modalitynoun
(logic) The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
Modenoun
(music) One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
Modalitynoun
(linguistics) The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood
Modenoun
A particular means of accomplishing something.
What was the mode of entry?Modalitynoun
(medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
Modenoun
(statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
Modalitynoun
Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
Modenoun
A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
Modalitynoun
(semiotics) A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.
Modenoun
(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
In insert mode, characters typed are directly inserted into the bufferModalitynoun
(theology) The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
Modenoun
(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
Modalitynoun
(music) The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
Modenoun
Style or fashion; trend (as in trendy).
Modalitynoun
(sociology) The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens' structuration theory).
Modenoun
how something is done or how it happens;
her dignified mannerhis rapid manner of talkingtheir nomadic mode of existencein the characteristic New York stylea lonely way of lifein an abrasive fashionModalitynoun
(legal) The quality of being limited by a condition.
Modenoun
a particular functioning condition or arrangement;
switched from keyboard to voice modeModalitynoun
a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
Modenoun
a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
Modalitynoun
verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
Modenoun
verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
Modalitynoun
a particular sense
Modenoun
any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
Modalitynoun
a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
Modenoun
the most frequent value of a random variable
