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
[edit] Places
- Mode, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Illinois
- Mode, Banmauk, a village in Burma
[edit] Mathematics
- Mode (statistics), the most common value among a group
- Modes of convergence, a property of a series
- Modes of a linear field
[edit] Science
- Normal mode, patterns of vibration in acoustics, electromagnetic theory, etc.,
- Quasinormal mode, a type of energy disspation of a perturbed object or field
- Starvation mode, a biological condition
[edit] 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
[edit] Music
- Musical mode, 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
[edit] 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
- a DOS and Windows command line tool for configuration of devices and the console
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a method of digital communication
- data types in some programming languages (e.g. EL/1)
[edit] 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; see plus-size model
- Mode magazine, a fictional fashion magazine which is the setting for the ABC series Ugly Betty
- Fashion
- Explosive Mode, an album
[edit] See also
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