Definition of Mode

Noun: mode mowd

How something is done or how it happens
"their nomadic mode of existence";
- manner, style, way, fashion
A particular functioning condition or arrangement
"switched from keyboard to voice mode"
A classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity, possibility or impossibility
- modality
A verb inflection expressing how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
- mood, modality
Any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
- musical mode
(statistics) the most frequent value of a random variable
- modal value