Mode ( la, modus 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 * ''Mode'' magazine, a fictional fashion magazine which is the setting for the ABC series ''

Ugly Betty ''Ugly Betty'' is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which was originally broadcast on ABC. It premiered on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombi ...

'' * ''Mode'' (video game), a 1996 video game *

Mode Records Mode Records is an American record label in New York City that concentrates on contemporary classical music and other forms of avant-garde music. The label was founded by Brian Brandt in 1984, with a goal of releasing music composed by John Cage. ...

, a record label * Mode Media, a defunct digital media company * ''Mode'' series, a quartet of novels by Piers Anthony * Modern Organization for Dance Evolvement, known as MODE, a 1970s modern dance organisation in New York

Music

Mode (music) In music theory, the term mode or ''modus'' is used in a number of distinct senses, depending on context. Its most common use may be described as a type of musical scale coupled with a set of characteristic melodic and harmonic behaviors. It ...

, a system of musical tonality involving a type of scale coupled with a set of characteristic melodic behaviors **

Modus (medieval music) In medieval music theory, the Latin term modus (meaning "a measure", "standard of measurement", "quantity", "size", "length", or, rendered in English, mode) can be used in a variety of distinct senses. The most commonly used meaning today relates t ...

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Gregorian mode A Gregorian mode (or church mode) is one of the eight systems of pitch organization used in Gregorian chant. History The name of Pope Gregory I was attached to the variety of chant that was to become the dominant variety in medieval western an ...

, a system of modes used in Gregorian chant (as opposed to ancient Greek modes or Byzantine octoechos) * "Mode", a song by PRhyme from the 2015 soundtrack '' Southpaw: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture''

Computing

* Data types in some programming languages * MODE (command), a DOS and Windows command line utility for the configuration of devices and the console *

Mode (user interface) In user interface design, a mode is a distinct setting within a computer program or any physical machine interface, in which the same user input will produce perceived results different from those that it would in other settings. Modal interface ...

, distinct method of operation within a computer system, in which the same user input can produce different results depending on the state of the system ** A

game mode In tabletop games and video games, game mechanics are the rules or ludemes that govern and guide the player's actions, as well as the game's response to them. A rule is an instruction on how to play, a ludeme is an element of play like the L-sha ...

, a mode used as a game mechanic in video games **

Digital camera modes Most digital cameras support the ability to choose among a number of configurations, or ''modes'', for use in various situations. Professional DSLR cameras provide several manual modes; consumer point-and-shoot cameras emphasize automatic modes; ...

Direct mode In computing, direct or immediate mode in an interactive programming system is the immediate execution of commands, statements, or expressions. In many interactive systems, most of these can both be included in programs or executed directly in ...

, a software configuration where text input is processed outside of an application **

Immediate mode (computer graphics) Immediate mode in computer graphics is a design pattern of API design in graphics libraries, in which * the client calls directly cause rendering of graphics objects to the display, or in which * the data to describe rendering primitives is ...

, a graphic library where commands produce direct rendering on the display *

Modes (Unix) The seven standard Unix file types are ''regular'', ''directory'', ''symbolic link'', ''FIFO special'', ''block special'', ''character special'', and ''socket'' as defined by POSIX. Different OS-specific implementations allow more types than what PO ...

, permissions given to users and groups to access files and folders on Unix hosts

Language

* Grammatical mood, also known as mode, a category of verbal inflections that expresses an attitude of mind **

Imperative mood The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request. The imperative mood is used to demand or require that an action be performed. It is usually found only in the present tense, second person. To form the imperative mood, ...

** Subjunctive mood * Mode (literature), the general category of a literary work, e.g. the pastoral mode *

Rhetorical modes The rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse) are a long-standing attempt to broadly classify the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and Speech, speaking, into Narrative, narration, description, Exposition ...

, a category of discourse **

Narrative mode Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the ...

, the type of method voice and point of view used to convey a narrative **

Modes of persuasion The modes of persuasion, modes of appeal or rhetorical appeals (Greek: ''pisteis'') are strategies of rhetoric that classify a speaker's or writer's appeal to their audience. These include ethos, pathos, and logos, all three of which appear in Ar ...

, oratorical devices

Mathematics

Mode (statistics) The mode is the value that appears most often in a set of data values. If is a discrete random variable, the mode is the value (i.e, ) at which the probability mass function takes its maximum value. In other words, it is the value that is most ...

, the most common value among a group *

Modes of convergence In mathematics, there are many senses in which a sequence or a series is said to be convergent. This article describes various modes (senses or species) of convergence in the settings where they are defined. For a list of modes of convergence, se ...

, a property of a series

Places

Mode, Banmauk Mode is a village in Banmauk Township, Katha District, in the Sagaing Region of northern-central Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British Engli ...

, a village in Burma *

Mode, Illinois Mode is an unincorporated community in Holland Township, Shelby County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section ...

, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Illinois, United States

Science

Mode (electromagnetism) The mode of electromagnetic radiation describes the field pattern of the propagating waves. Electromagnetic modes are analogous to the normal modes of vibration in other systems, such as mechanical systems. Some of the classifications of electroma ...

** Hybrid mode, such as

longitudinal-section mode Longitudinal-section modes are a set of a particular kind of electromagnetic transmission modes found in some types of transmission line. They are a subset of hybrid electromagnetic modes (HEM modes). HEM modes are those modes that have both an ...

* Normal mode, patterns of vibration in acoustics, electromagnetic theory, etc. **

Longitudinal mode A longitudinal mode of a resonant cavity is a particular standing wave pattern formed by waves confined in the cavity. The longitudinal modes correspond to the wavelengths of the wave which are reinforced by constructive interference after man ...

Transverse mode A transverse mode of electromagnetic radiation is a particular electromagnetic field pattern of the radiation in the plane perpendicular (i.e., transverse) to the radiation's propagation direction. Transverse modes occur in radio waves and microwav ...

** Global mode * Quasinormal mode, a type of energy dissipation of a perturbed object or field * Starvation mode, a biological condition

Other uses

* Amateur radio modes *

Fashion Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion i ...

* IL Mode, a former name of

Bærum SK Bærum Sportsklubb is a Norwegian association football club founded on 26 March 1910. The men's team is currently playing in the Norwegian Second Division, after being relegated from the 1. divisjon in 2015. The club comes from Sandvika, the a ...

, a Norwegian association football club *

Mode of transport Mode of transport is a term used to distinguish between different ways of transportation or transporting people or goods. The different modes of transport are air, water, and land transport, which includes rails or railways, road and off-road ...

, a means of transportation * A technocomplex of stone tools *

Mode of production In the Marxist theory of historical materialism, a mode of production (German: ''Produktionsweise'', "the way of producing") is a specific combination of the: * Productive forces: these include human labour power and means of production (tools, ...

, a Marxist term for way of producing goods *, several ships of the Swedish Navy