EGAVE

modal

About 3.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
  2. adjective Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
  3. adjective Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music. In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
  4. adjective In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
  5. adjective Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
  6. adjective Relating to the statistical mode.
  7. adjective Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
  8. adjective Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
    a modal dialog; a modal window

Similar words

normal average multimodal mode dominant intermodal multi-modal conditional contingent hypothetical

Often followed by

logic analysis verbs and split auxiliaries personality operators dialog

Word family

modally

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