[ˈməʊdl], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- relating to mode or form as opposed to substance
(e.g: this will see faster journey times and greater frequency, stimulating accelerated modal shift from the car to the bus)

- relating to a value that occurs most frequently in a given set of data
(e.g: patients aged from 2 days to 23 months (modal age group 0–3 months))

- of or denoting the mood of a verb

- of or denoting music using melodies or harmonies based on modes other than the ordinary major and minor scales
(e.g: in the medieval period music became less modal and more tonal)

- (of a proposition) in which the predicate is affirmed of the subject with some qualification, or which involves the affirmation of possibility, impossibility, necessity, or contingency
(e.g: his world-leading research in modal logic and category theory)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in modal): from medieval Latin modalis, from Latin modus (see mode)

[ˈməʊdl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a modal word or construction


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century (in modal): from medieval Latin modalis, from Latin modus (see mode)

[ˈməʊdl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a type of rayon fibre or fabric that has high strength when wet, made mainly from beechwood pulp
(e.g: modal is shrink-resistant and unlikely to fade)


Phrases:

Origin:
1970s: perhaps from modulus (the fibre has a high wet modulus, i.e. high strength when it is wet)