Modality may refer to:
Humanities
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Modality (theology), the organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations
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Modality (music), in music, the subject concerning certain diatonic scales
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Modalities (sociology), a concept in Anthony Giddens' structuration theory
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Modal logic
Modal logic is a kind of logic used to represent statements about Modality (natural language), necessity and possibility. In philosophy and related fields
it is used as a tool for understanding concepts such as knowledge, obligation, and causality ...
(philosophy), a form of logic which distinguishes between (logically) "necessary truths" and "contingent truths"
Linguistics
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Modality (linguistics), the ways language can express various relationships to reality or truth
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Modality (semiotics)
In semiotics, a modality is a particular way in which information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text, or genre. It is more closely associated ...
, the channel by which signs are transmitted (oral, gesture, written)
Medicine
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Modality (therapy), a method of therapeutic approach
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Modality (diagnosis), a method of diagnosis
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Modality (medical imaging), acquiring structural or functional images of the body
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Stimulus modality
Stimulus modality, also called sensory modality, is one aspect of a stimulus or what is perceived after a stimulus. For example, the temperature modality is registered after heat or cold stimulate a receptor. Some sensory modalities include: l ...
, a type of physical phenomenon or stimulus that one can sense, such as temperature and sound
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Modality Partnership, a British primary care provider
Science and technology
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Transportation modality, a mode of transport
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Modality (human–computer interaction), a path of communication between the human and the computer, such as vision or touch
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Mode (user interface), a distinct setting within a computer program or any physical machine interface
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Stimulus modality
Stimulus modality, also called sensory modality, is one aspect of a stimulus or what is perceived after a stimulus. For example, the temperature modality is registered after heat or cold stimulate a receptor. Some sensory modalities include: l ...
, one aspect of a stimulus or what is perceived after a stimulus (e.g. light, sound, temperature, taste], pressure, or smell)
Pseudoscience
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Modality (astrology)
Other uses
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Multimedia learning
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advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419 scams), the method of funds transfers; often used as a key-word in scam baiting
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Modal realism, the view that all possible worlds are as real as the actual world
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Extended modal realism, the view that all worlds, possible as well as impossible, are as real as the actual world
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Modalities (trade negotiations), the formulas, targets, or specific measures used to accomplish objectives in trade negotiations
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''Modality'' (book), a 2009 book by the semanticist Paul Portner
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Mode (disambiguation)
Mode ( meaning "manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody") may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* MO''D''E (magazine), a defunct U.S. women's fashion magazine
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