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Word: modal (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • computer science requiring immediate user interaction (often used as ''modal dialog'' or ''modal window'')
  • grammar of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause
  • logic of, or relating to the modality between propositions
  • music 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
  • of, or relating to a mode or modus
  • statistics relating to the statistical mode.

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Noun:

  • linguistics A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
  • logic A modal proposition

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