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 * ''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 aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 28, 2006, to April 14, 2010. It is based on the Colombian telenovela ''Yo soy Betty, la fea' ...

'' * ''Mode'' (video game), a 1996 video game * Mode Records, a record label * Mode Media, a defunct digital media company * ''Mode'' (book series), a quartet of novels by Piers Anthony * Modern Organization for Dance Evolvement, known as MODE, a 1970s modern dance organisation in New York * ''Mode'', a defunct Indonesian women's magazine

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) ***

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 and ...

, 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'' * '' The Mode'' (album), a 1962 album by Sonny Red

Computing

* MODE (command), a DOS and Windows command line utility for the configuration of devices and the console * Mode (user 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, a mode used as a game mechanic in video games ** Digital camera modes ** Direct mode, a software configuration where text input is processed outside of an application **

Immediate mode (computer graphics) Immediate mode is an application programming interface, API design pattern in computer graphics libraries, in which * the Client (computing), client calls directly cause Rendering (computer graphics), rendering of graphics objects to the display ...

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

Modes (Unix) The Unix file types are the categories of file formats that a Unix-based system uses to provide context-sensitive behavior of file system items all of which called ''files'' in Unix-based systems. POSIX defines categories: regular, Directory (comp ...

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

Language

Grammatical mood In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality. That is, it is the use of verbal inflections that allow speakers to express their attitude toward what they are saying (for example, a statement ...

, 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. They are sometimes called ' ...

Subjunctive mood The subjunctive (also known as the conjunctive in some languages) is a grammatical mood, a feature of an utterance that indicates the speaker's attitude toward it. Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to express various states of unreali ...

Mode (literature) In literature and other artistic media, a mode is an unspecific critical term usually designating a broad but identifiable kind of literary method, mood, or manner that is not tied exclusively to a particular form or genre. Examples are the ''s ...

, 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 broad traditional classification of the major kinds of literary language, formal and academic writing (including Public speaking, speech-writing) by their rhetorical (persuasive) purpo ...

, 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: ') 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 Aristotle' ...

, oratorical devices

Mathematics

Mode (statistics) In 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 at which the probability mass function takes its maximum value (i.e., ). In other words, it is the val ...

, the most common value among a group * Modes of convergence, a property of a series

Places

* Mode, Banmauk, a village in Burma * Mode, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Illinois, United States

Science

* Mode (electromagnetism), a pattern of wave propagation. ** Longitudinal mode **

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 micr ...

** Hybrid mode, such as longitudinal-section mode *

Normal mode A normal mode of a dynamical system is a pattern of motion in which all parts of the system move sinusoidally with the same frequency and with a fixed phase relation. The free motion described by the normal modes takes place at fixed frequencies ...

, patterns of vibration in acoustics, electromagnetic theory, etc. * Global mode, a concept in

hydrodynamics In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids – liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including (the study of air and other gases in ...

* 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 term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, Fashion accessory, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into Clothing, outfits that depict distinct ...

* IL Mode, a former name of Bærum SK, a Norwegian association football club *

Mode of transport A mode of transport is a method or way of travelling, or of transporting people or cargo. The different modes of transport include air, water, and land transport, which includes rails or railways, road and off-road transport. Other modes of t ...

, a means of transportation * A technocomplex of

stone tool Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age. Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or knapped stone, the latter fashioned by a ...

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