Mode

Mode (modus meaning "manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody") may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * MODE (magazine), a defunct U.S. women's fashion magazine
 * Mode magazine, a fictional fashion magazine which is the setting for the ABC series Ugly Betty
 * Mode (video game), a 1996 video game
 * Mode Records, a record label
 * Mode Media, a defunct digital media company
 * Mode series, a quartet of novels by Piers Anthony
 * Modern Organization for Dance Evolvement, known as MODE, a 1970s modern dance organisation in New York
 * Mode, a defunct Indonesian women's magazine

Music

 * Mode (music), a system of musical tonality involving a type of scale coupled with a set of characteristic melodic behaviors
 * Modus (medieval music)
 * Gregorian mode, a system of modes used in Gregorian chant (as opposed to ancient Greek modes or Byzantine octoechos)
 * "Mode", a song by PRhyme from the 2015 soundtrack Southpaw: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture
 * The Mode (album), a 1962 album by Sonny Red

Computing

 * MODE (command), a DOS and Windows command line utility for the configuration of devices and the console
 * Mode (user interface), distinct method of operation within a computer system, in which the same user input can produce different results depending on the state of the system
 * A game mode, a mode used as a game mechanic in video games
 * Digital camera modes
 * Direct mode, a software configuration where text input is processed outside of an application
 * Immediate mode (computer graphics), a graphic library where commands produce direct rendering on the display
 * Modes (Unix), permissions given to users and groups to access files and folders on Unix hosts

Language

 * Grammatical mood, also known as mode, a category of verbal inflections that expresses an attitude of mind
 * Imperative mood
 * Subjunctive mood
 * Mode (literature), the general category of a literary work, e.g. the pastoral mode
 * Rhetorical modes, a category of discourse
 * Narrative mode, the type of method voice and point of view used to convey a narrative
 * Modes of persuasion, oratorical devices

Mathematics

 * Mode (statistics), the most common value among a group
 * Modes of convergence, a property of a series

Places

 * Mode, Banmauk, a village in Burma
 * Mode, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Illinois, United States

Science

 * Mode (electromagnetism)
 * Hybrid mode, such as longitudinal-section mode
 * Normal mode, patterns of vibration in acoustics, electromagnetic theory, etc.
 * Longitudinal mode
 * Transverse mode
 * Global mode
 * Quasinormal mode, a type of energy dissipation of a perturbed object or field
 * Starvation mode, a biological condition

Other uses

 * Amateur radio modes
 * Fashion
 * IL Mode, a former name of Bærum SK, a Norwegian association football club
 * Mode of transport, a means of transportation
 * A technocomplex of stone tools
 * Mode of production, a Marxist term for way of producing goods
 * HSWMS Mode, several ships of the Swedish Navy