modal

  1. Adjective.  of, or relating to a mode or modus.
  2. Adjective.  (grammar) of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
  3. Adjective.  (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.
  4. Adjective.  (logic) of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
  5. Adjective.  (statistics) relating to the statistical mode.
  6. Adjective.  (computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
  7. Adjective.  (computer science) requiring immediate user interaction (often used as ''modal dialog'' or ''modal window'').
  8. Noun.  (logic) A modal proposition.
  9. Noun.  (linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.

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