mode
• noun 1 a way in which something occurs or is done. 2 a style in clothes, art, etc. 3 Music a set of notes forming a scale and from which melodies and harmonies are constructed. 4 Statistics the value that occurs most frequently in a given data set. — ORIGIN originally in the musical sense: from Latin modus ‘measure, manner’.
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