What is the meaning of mode?

How something is done or how it happens.
- usage: "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"
- synonyms: manner, style, way, fashion
A particular functioning condition or arrangement.
- usage: "switched from keyboard to voice mode"
A classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility.
- synonyms: modality
Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker.
- synonyms: mood, modality
Any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave.
- synonyms: musical mode
The most frequent value of a random variable.
- synonyms: modal value

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