Crossword clues for modal
modal
- Like some verbs
- Type of jazz
- Related to form or type
- Premise in logic
- Of manner
- Of a method
- Most frequent, statistically (DOLMA anagram)
- Most frequent, statistically
- Like the verbs "will" and "might"
- Like some statistical figures
- Like medieval church music
- Kind of verb in grammar
- Jazz or verb type
- Denoting a manner
- Based on a scale other than major or minor
- ___ auxiliary (verb like can or might)
- Form-related
- Relating to form and not substance
- Of form, as opposed to substance
- Like some jazz compositions
- Of manner or form
- Type of auxiliary verb
- Most common, to statisticians
- Most common, statistically
- Typical
- Regarding manner or form
- Most frequent, to a statistician
- Indicating form
- Of a musical arrangement
- Relating to structure
- Having form without reality
- Occurring most frequently in a population
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Modal \Mo"dal\, a. [Cf. F. modal. See Mode.]
Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.
--Glanvill.(Logic & Metaph.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought, such as the modes of possibility or obligation.
(Gram.) Pertaining to or denoting mood.
Modal \Mo"dal\(Gram.), n. A modal auxiliary.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, term in logic, from Middle French modal and directly from Medieval Latin modalis "of or pertaining to a mode," from Latin modus "measure, manner, mode" (see mode (n.1)). Musical sense is from 1590s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 of, or relating to a mode or modus 2 (context grammar English) of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause 3 (context grammar English) modal verb 4 (context music English) 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 5 (context logic English) of, or relating to the modality between propositions 6 (context statistics English) relating to the statistical mode. 7 (context computing English) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects. 8 (context computer science English) requiring immediate user interaction (often used as ''modal dialog'' or ''modal window'') 9 (context metaphysics English) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes n. 1 (context logic English) A modal proposition 2 (context linguistics English) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
WordNet
adj. relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30" [syn: modal(a), average]
of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
relating to or expressing the mood of a verb; "modal auxiliary"
Wikipedia
Modal is a type of rayon, a semi-synthetic cellulose fiber made by spinning reconstituted cellulose, in this case often from beech trees. Modal is used alone or with other fibers (often cotton or spandex) in household items such as pajamas, towels, bathrobes, underwear and bedsheets.
Modal is processed under different conditions, to produce a fiber that is stronger and more stable when wet than standard rayon, yet has a soft feel, similar to cotton.
Some people report an allergic reaction to products made from modal, possibly due to its origin in beech pulp.
Can be pronounced moe-dul or moe-dal.
Modal may refer to:
- Modal (textile), a textile made from spun cellulose fiber
- Modal analysis, the study of the dynamic properties of structures under vibrational excitation
- Modal bandwidth, in the discipline of telecommunications, refers to the signalling rate per distance unit
- Modal haplotype, an ancestral haplotype derived from the DNA test results of a specific group of people
- Modal jazz, jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework
- Modal logic, a type of formal logic that extends the standards of formal logic to include the elements of modality
- Modal matrix, used in the diagonalization process involving eigenvalues and eigenvectors
- Modal phenomena
- Modal administration, used in Federal Agencies to describe sub-offices or "modes"
- Modal transportation, used in transit to describe multiple modes of transit available such as bus, trolley, train, ferry
- Modal score, used in testing and education for the most common score
- Modal verb, a type of auxiliary verb that is used to indicate modality
- Modal window, a child window that requires users to interact with it before they can return to operating the parent application
- A trade name for Sulpiride, an atypical antipsychotic drug
Usage examples of "modal".
In the morning, when I reached the cantina, I found the Modal Nodes already there, setting up.
In the precision of harmonic structure, he hears his own conviction that the coding problem rests on a simple look-up tableat ever lower levels, a mechanism to explain cell growth, viral piracy, symbiotic coalition government of organs, the origin of species, phone impulses broken off in panic, inexplicable behavior late in the year, fitful inspiration, the continuous cold modal rapture in chords, in vivo.
Nevertheless, they go through the motions, set out a wassail bowl, paper cups depicting Santa Claus in various postures of levity, a herd of wax reindeer, and a university record player on which Toveh Botkin, music committee, keeps up a stream of modal progressions insisting glad tidings of great joy.
Strat, she found old songs and melodies from her training with Sruitmor, the straightforward modal airs of the Corca Duibne school.
Christa sought to catch Orfide off guard, but he followed her effortlessly, matching her chromatics with abrupt modal shifts, expanding his tactics to include the full voice of his harp: all the modes, rather than the few customarily used for defense and combat.
Somewhere there was music playing, a modal dirge from the doomboom of the twenty twenties.
He paused often to comment on the varying rhythm patterns, the assonantal rhymes, and the modal melodies.
Give the interval of statistical weightedness, or a modal distribution, of the influence of the differences on our chances for contact.
Phaid had last been in the Republic, the form of music was a kind of nasal, modal singing to the accompaniment of a twelve tone Sievian harp.
In the morning, when I reached the cantina, I found the Modal Nodes already there, setting up.
We accept money, approved modal barter, agalmic kudos metrics, temporal futures, and—"
She gave an odd little quivering sigh as I went into her, a husky sound that seemed to hit several notes at once, like a sound from one of those medieval Indian instruments that were tuned only to minor keys and produced sad twanging modal tone clusters.
He uses well-tempered tuning as a starting point, takes off from there into the deepest realms of advanced number theory, circles back all of a sudden to the Qwghlmian modal scale, just to keep them on their toes, and then goes screaming straight back into number theory again.
And Modal, sitting on the couch next to him, was bright-eyed and alert, thinking only of how much money and power would come to him as Minister of Industry once the rearmament program went into full speed.