modality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: modalities
Etymology: From French modalité.
Senses: glosses: The fact of being modal.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood
examples: text: If a port-wine stain has been treated with another modality, such as the argon, CO2, or KTP laser, electrocautery, radiation, or tattooing, FPDL treatment may provide less lightening and improvement.
ref: 2001, Gregory Keller, Victor Lacombe, Lasers in Aesthetic Surgery, page 188:
text: The four major modalities used in patients with solid tumors are (a) surgery, (b) radiation therapy, (c) chemotherapy, and (d) immunotherapy
ref: 2006, Richard A. Helms, David J. Quan, Textbook of Therapeutics: Drug and Disease Management, page 2487:
text: Exercise training is a therapeutic modality that should be considered for all patients with ventricular dysfunction
ref: 2010, Ellen Hillegass, H. Steven Sadowsky, Essentials of Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy:
text: In general, pharmacotherapy is less effective as a single modality approach than psychotherapy when treating chronic depression with an Axis II disorder.
ref: 2011, George M. Kapalka, Pediatricians and Pharmacologically Trained Psychologists, page 7:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A method of diagnosis or therapy.
glosses: Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: A particular way in which the 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.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
examples: text: Thus, the University budgeting system can be seen not only as modality in the reproduction of social structures, but also as an important means of meeting deeply rooted psychological needs for ontological security.
ref: 1997, Christopher G. A. Bryant, David Jary, Anthony Giddens: Critical Assessments - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 307:
text: Modalities of structuration, then, are simply ways in which rules and resources are knowingly used by people in interactions.
ref: 2010, Kenneth Allan, Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory: Visualizing Social Worlds, →ISBN, page 255:
text: In turn, social structure and human interactions are interrelated through three aspects of modality: interpretive schema, facility, and norm.
ref: 2016, Jia Luo, Social Structuration in Tibetan Society, →ISBN:
text: An example, which I explore in detail in this book in Chap. 5, is the way that parents to be use their knowledge and expertise of how to mobilise digital memories (their affordances to use a mobile phone, to use social media platforms for example) to take sonographic image of the unborn foetus that they are given in a hospital out into the world and beyond. They thereby shift the modality of the medical procedure that generated the image-memory as part of an obstetric sonogram.
ref: 2016, Anna Reading, Gender and Memory in the Globital Age, →ISBN, page 52:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory).
topics: law
glosses: The quality of being limited by a condition.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: That whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable
Derived terms: intermodality
monomodality
multimodality
polymodality
quadrimodality
submodality