Mode

Mode (Template:Lang-la 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 the 2015 soundtrack 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

Science

• Normal mode, patterns of vibration in acoustics, electromagnetic theory, etc.
  • Longitudinal mode
  • Transverse mode
  • Global mode
• Mode (electromagnetism)
  • Hybrid mode, such as longitudinal-section mode
• Quasinormal mode, a type of energy dissipation of a perturbed object or field
• Starvation mode, a biological condition

Computation

• Mode (user interface), distinct method of operation within a computer system, in which the same user input can produce different results depending on the state of the system
  • A game mode, a mode used as a game mechanic in video games
  • Digital camera modes
  • Direct mode, a software configuration where text input is processed outside of an application
  • Immediate mode (computer graphics), a graphic library where commands produce direct rendering on the display
• Data types in some programming languages (e.g., EL/1)
• Block cipher mode of operation, in cryptography
• Mode.com, a data science platform
• 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 Media, a defunct digital media company, formerly at Mode.com
• 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
• Edna Mode, a fictional character in Pixar's animated superhero film The Incredibles
• Mode (video game), a 1996 video game produced by Jeff Green and the Animatics Multimedia Corporation

Places

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

Other uses

• Amateur radio modes
• IL Mode, a former name of Bærum SK, a Norwegian association football club
• Mode of transport, 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)