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Mode is a related term of instrumentality.


As nouns the difference between mode and instrumentality

is that mode is fashion, trend while instrumentality is (uncountable) the quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.

mode

English

(wikipedia mode)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) mode, from (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) One of several ancient scales, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale
  • A particular means of accomplishing something.
    • What was the mode of entry?
  • * 1855 , Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (volume 9, page 205)
    • An effectual and unexpensive mode of Protecting Wall-Trees from Spring-Frosts.
  • (statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
  • (mathematics, physics) A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
  • (computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.
    • In insert mode , characters typed are directly inserted into the buffer
  • (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
    • Derived terms
    * (music) Aeolian mode, Dorian mode, Ionian mode, Locrian mode, Lydian mode, Mixolydian mode, Phrygian mode * (grammar) imperative mode, indicative mode, infinitive mode, subjunctive mode * (computing) immediate mode, protected mode, real mode, retained mode * collective mode * dual mode * soft mode
    Synonyms
    * (grammar) mood, grammatical mood
    Hyponyms
    * (grammar) See also
    Related terms
    * modal * modality * model * modeler * moderate * moderation * moderator * module * mood

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Style or fashion.

    • See also

    * bimodal distribution * median * mean * modal

    Anagrams

    * ----

    instrumentality

    English

    Noun

    (instrumentalities)
  • (uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.
  • *1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 294:
  • *:In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the ‘great design’ which he wished to establish through her instrumentality .
  • (countable, legal) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
  • *1994 , :
  • *:Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.
  • (countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument
  • *{{quote-book, year=1838, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Helen Hunt Jackson, title=Bits About Home Matters, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1914, author=Samuel F. B. Morse, title=Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=God works by instrumentalities , and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance. }}