modality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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French modal
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itātemlbor.
Old French -ité
Middle French -ité
French -ité
French modalitébor.
English modality
Borrowed from French modalité.
Inflected forms:
form: modalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fact of being modal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A method of diagnosis or therapy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
The four major modalities used in patients with solid tumors are (a) surgery, (b) radiation therapy, (c) chemotherapy, and (d) immunotherapy
Exercise training is a therapeutic modality that should be considered for all patients with ventricular dysfunction
In general, pharmacotherapy is less effective as a single modality approach than psychotherapy when treating chronic depression with an Axis II disorder.
gloss: Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Modalities of structuration, then, are simply ways in which rules and resources are knowingly used by people in interactions.
In turn, social structure and human interactions are interrelated through three aspects of modality: interpretive schema, facility, and norm.
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.
gloss: The quality of being limited by a condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: intermodality
monomodality
multimodality
polymodality
quadrimodality
submodality
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: modalitat
lang: Czech
word: modalita
lang: Finnish
word: modaalisuus
lang: French
word: modalité
lang: Georgian
word: მოდალურობა
roman: modaluroba
lang: Hindi
word: प्रकारता
roman: prakārtā
lang: Hindi
word: वृत्तित्व
roman: vŕttitva
lang: Hindi
word: निश्चयमात्रा
roman: niścaymātrā
lang: Hindi
word: बहुलकता
roman: bahulaktā
lang: Mongolian
word: баймж
roman: bajmž
lang: Portuguese
word: modalidade
lang: Romanian
word: modalitate
lang: Russian
word: модальность
roman: modalʹnostʹ
lang: Spanish
word: modalidad
lang: Ukrainian
word: мода́льність
roman: modálʹnistʹ