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modes

noun

Meaning

  1. One of several ancient Greek scales.
  2. One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
  3. A particular means of accomplishing something.
  4. A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
  5. The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
  6. A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
  7. Style or fashion; popular trend.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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