Modal

['məʊd(ə)l] or ['modl]

Definition

(adj.) relating to or expressing the mood of a verb; 'modal auxiliary' .

(adj.) of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode .

(adj.) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; 'the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30' .

Editor: Vlad--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.

(a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.

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