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Criterium vs Modality - What's the difference?

criterium | modality |

As nouns the difference between criterium and modality

is that criterium is criterium while modality is the fact of being modal.

criterium

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (cycling) A mass-start road-cycle race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 1 km to 2 km (1/2 mile to just over 1 mile).
  • * 1867 George H. Lewes, A Biographical History of Philosophy 1.181:
  • There is no criterium of truth.

    Synonyms

    * (bicycle racing) crit

    Coordinate terms

    * circuit race

    See also

    * ("criterium" on Wikipedia) * (Road cycle racing)

    References

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    modality

    English

    Noun

    (modalities)
  • the fact of being modal
  • (logic) the classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode
  • (linguistics) the inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood
  • (medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.
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  • Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
  • (semiotics) a particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre
  • (theology) the organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations
  • (music) the subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes
  • (sociology) a concept in structuration theory
  • See also

    * * (Linguistic modality)