Molal vs Modal - What's the difference?
molal | modal |
(chemistry) Of or designating a solution that contains one mole of solute per 1000g of solvent
of, or relating to a mode or modus
(grammar) of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause
(grammar) modal verb
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(music) of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical music
(logic) of, or relating to the modality between propositions
(statistics) relating to the statistical mode.
(computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
(computer science) requiring immediate user interaction (often used as modal dialog'' or ''modal window )
(metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes
As adjectives the difference between molal and modal
is that molal is of or designating a solution that contains one mole of solute per 1000g of solvent while modal is of, or relating to a mode or modus.As a noun modal is
a modal proposition.molal
English
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* molalitymodal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Using the same type of distributional criterion, we could argue that only a Verb (in its base form) can occur in the position marked — in (23) below to complete the sentence:
(23) They/it can —
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Conversely, the only type of word which could be used to begin a three-word sentence such as (25) below:
(25) — I be frank?
is a Modal : cf. [...]