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Modal   /mˈoʊdəl/   Listen
Modal

adjective
1.
Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution.  Synonym: average.
2.
Of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode.
3.
Relating to or expressing the mood of a verb.
noun
1.
An auxiliary verb (such as 'can' or 'will') that is used to express modality.  Synonyms: modal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb, modal verb.



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"Modal" Quotes from Famous Books



... answers in a general way to the Law of Continuity in the inorganic world, or rather is so analogous to it that both may fairly be expressed by the Leibnitzian axiom, Natura non agit saltatim. As an axiom or philosophical principle, used to test modal laws or hypotheses, this in strictness belongs only to physics. In the investigation of Nature at large, at least in the organic world, nobody would undertake to apply this principle as a test of the validity of any theory or supposed law. But naturalists of ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray
... instinctive sense of harmony; and although the actual chords are absent, the melodic formation of the songs plainly indicates a feeling for modern harmony, and even form. The actual scale resembles our European scale of twelve semitones (twenty-two s'rutis, quarter-tones), but the modal development of these sounds has been extraordinary. Now a "mode" is the manner in which the notes of a scale are arranged. For instance, in our major mode the scale is arranged as follows: tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone. In India there are at ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell
... are frequently overlooked. Firstly, that "in any attempt to estimate the extent to which men receive wages above the minimum on account of superior efficiency, it is important to bear in mind that the minimum in different scales may stand in very different relation to the modal or predominant wage. The proportion of men receiving more than the union minimum is frequently large because the competitive wage has increased since the minimum was established" (page 116); and secondly, ...
— The Settlement of Wage Disputes • Herbert Feis


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