noun A particular way or method of doing something.
- Switch the phone to airplane mode before takeoff.
- The car has separate modes for city and highway driving.
- Press the button to change the camera from photo mode to video mode.
noun (statistics) The value that occurs most often in a set of data.
- In the data set 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, the mode is 3.
- The mode of the shoe sizes in our class is seven.
- If two numbers appear equally often, the set has two modes.
noun A particular state of mind or way of behaving.
- He switched into work mode as soon as he sat at his desk.
- After the long holiday, I stayed in relaxed mode all week.
- The children went into panic mode when the lights suddenly went out.
noun (music) One of several traditional scales, such as the major or minor scale.
- The song was written in the Dorian mode, giving it an unusual, moody sound.
- Students learn to tell the major mode from the minor mode by ear.
- Many folk tunes are built on an old mode rather than a modern scale.
