modal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊdəl/
ipa: /ˈmoʊdəl/
ipa: /ˈməʉdəl/
rhymes: -əʊdəl
Forms: form: more modal
form: most modal
Etymology: From Middle French modal, from Medieval Latin modālis (“pertaining to a mode”), from Latin modus (“mode”). Compare to French, Spanish, and Portuguese modal and Italian modale. By surface analysis, mod(e) + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
glosses: In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
raw_tags: of music
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Relating to the statistical mode.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: modeless
glosses: Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
examples: text: Dialogs can be modal, in which case the user is required to provide necessary information before work in the main window can continue, or modeless. Modeless dialogs do not prevent the user from interacting with any of the other windows in the application.
ref: a. 2011, “Dialog Windows”, in Qt Widgets Documentation, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2020:
text: a modal dialog; a modal window
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: modeless
glosses: Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.
Synonyms: forming
conditioning
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from modal (adjective)
word: antimodal
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word: bimodal
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word: crossmodal
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word: eigenmodal
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word: extramodal
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word: heteromodal
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word: intermodal
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word: intramodal
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word: metamodal
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word: modal adverb
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word: modal auxiliary
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word: modal case
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word: modal filter
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word: modalise
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word: modalism
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word: modalist
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word: modality
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word: modalized
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word: modal jazz
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word: modal logic
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word: modally
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word: modal particle
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word: modal scale
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word: modal shift
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word: monomodal
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word: multimodal
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word: neomodal
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word: nonmodal
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word: plurimodal
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word: polymodal
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word: quadrimodal
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word: quasimodal
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word: submodal
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word: supramodal
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word: synchromodal
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word: transmodal
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word: trimodal
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word: unimodal
Related terms: sense: Terms related to modal
word: mode
sense: Terms related to modal
word: model
sense: Terms related to modal
word: modeler
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word: moderate
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word: moderation
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word: moderator
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word: module
sense: Terms related to modal
word: modulus
sense: Terms related to modal
word: mood