Mode

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Mode (etymology from Latin modus: "manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody") may mean:

• Transport mode, a means of transportation
• Block cipher modes of operation, in cryptography
• A technocomplex of stone tools
• Mode of production, a Marxist term for way of producing goods

Places

• Mode, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Illinois
• Mode, Banmauk, a village in Burma

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.,
  • Mode shape
  • Longitudinal mode
  • Transverse mode
• Quasinormal mode, a type of energy dissipation of a perturbed object or field
• Starvation mode, a biological condition

Language

• Mode (literature)
• Grammatical mood
• Narrative mode
• Mode series, a quartet of novels by Piers Anthony
• Modes of persuasion, oratorical devices
• The Devil's Mode, a collection of short stories by Anthony Burgess

Music

• Mode (music), a classification system of musical tonalities
• Modus (medieval music), several other technical senses of modus or mode in medieval music theory
• Gregorian mode, a pitch organization of Gregorian chant

Computing

• Modes (Unix), permissions given to users and groups to access files and folders on Unix hosts
• 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 videogames
• 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
• data types in some programming languages (e.g. EL/1)

Popular culture

• Mode Records, a record label
• MODE Magazine, a now out-of-print US women's fashion magazine created specifically to feature fashions over a US size 14 with a Vogue magazine-like creative aesthetic
• Mode magazine, a fictional fashion magazine which is the setting for the ABC series Ugly Betty
• Fashion
• Explosive Mode, an album

See also

• Modal (disambiguation)
• Modality (disambiguation)

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