modal
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1. modal - Noun
2. modal - Adjective
3. modal - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.
Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.
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Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30
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Abram Kardiner was also affected by these ideas, and in time, the concept of "modal personality" was born: the cluster of traits most commonly thought to be observed in people of any given culture.
A cylindrical rod wrap consists of a specified number turns of fiber on a mandrel of specified size, depending on the fibre characteristics and the desired modal distribution.
Also, while the worlds of the many-worlds interpretation all share the same physical laws, modal realism postulates a world for every way things could conceivably have been.