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  1. Noun.  (music) One of several ancient scales, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
  2. Noun.  A particular means of accomplishing something.
  3. Noun.  (statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution.
  4. Noun.  (mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
  5. Noun.  (computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
  6. Noun.  Style or fashion.

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