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modal

adj
/ˈməʊdəl/UK/ˈmoʊdəl/CA/ˈməʉdəl/

Etymology

From Middle French modal, from Medieval Latin modālis (“pertaining to a mode”), from Latin modus (“mode”). Compare to French, Spanish, and Portuguese modal and Italian modale. By surface analysis, mod(e) + -al.

  1. derived from modus
  2. derived from modālis
  3. borrowed from modal

Definitions

  1. Of, or relating to a mode or modus.

  2. Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.

  3. Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided,…

    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. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.

    2. Relating to the statistical mode.

    3. Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.

    4. Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or…

      Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.

      • a modal dialog; a modal window

    5. Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.

    6. A modal proposition.

    7. A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.

    8. A modal verb.

    9. A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.

      • Modal screen elements are subtrees which, when activated, disable all elements external to them. Examples of modals are yes-no message boxes and the application itself.

    10. A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and…

      A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with chemicals.

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Derived

antimodal, bimodal, crossmodal, eigenmodal, extramodal, heteromodal, intermodal, intramodal, metamodal, modal adverb, modal auxiliary, modal case, modal filter, modalise, modalism, modalist, modality, modalized, modal jazz, modal logic, modally, modal particle, modal scale, modal shift, monomodal, multimodal, neomodal, nonmodal, plurimodal, polymodal, quadrimodal, quasimodal, submodal, supramodal, synchromodal, transmodal, trimodal, unimodal, double modal, essive-modal · +3 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at modal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at modal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at modal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA