modes
- 1Plural of mode.
The software offers multiple modes for editing video and audio.
City planners compared several transportation modes before approving the new route.
Note
A regular plural whose meaning shifts with the field it is used in. Musicians speak of the modes as a family of scales, ancient Greek or modern Western, of which the major and natural minor are two. Physicists mean distinct wave patterns in an electromagnetic field. Programmers mean the sets of rules, or states, that govern how a system behaves. The form never changes, so only context tells them apart.
modes is a form of mode
mode, noun: A setting or state in which a device, program, or game works in a particular way, often chosen for a specific purpose. Full entry
- Forms
- modemodes plural
- Spelling
- mode → modes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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