Patterning and Mode

noun

• How something is done or how it happens.
  • usage: "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"
  • synonyms: manner, style, way, fashion
• A particular functioning condition or arrangement.
  • usage: "switched from keyboard to voice mode"
• A classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility.
  • synonyms: modality
• Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker.
  • synonyms: mood, modality
• Any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave.
  • synonyms: musical mode
• The most frequent value of a random variable.
  • synonyms: modal value

• (n.) Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.
• (n.) Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.
• (n.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music.
• (n.) Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
• (n.) The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.
• (n.) Same as Mood.
• (n.) Variety; gradation; degree.
• (n.) A kind of silk. See Alamode, n.

mode is the most frequently occurring variate. (See variate).