mode

[məʊd]
n
a manner or way of doing, acting, or existing
the current fashion or style
any of the various scales of notes within one octave, esp any of the twelve natural diatonic scales taken in ascending order used in plainsong, folk song, and art music until 1600.(in the music of classical Greece) any of the descending diatonic scales from which the liturgical modes evolved.either of the two main scale systems in music since 1600
another name for modalityanother name for mood
a complex combination of ideas the realization of which is not determined by the component ideas
that one of a range of values that has the highest frequency as determined statisticallySee mean See median
the quantitative mineral composition of an igneous rock
one of the possible configurations of a travelling or stationary wave
one of the fundamental vibrations