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modal

noun

  1. textile fibre
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adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈməʊdəl/ / /ˈmoʊdəl/ / /ˈməʉdəl/

adj

Etymology: From Middle French modal, from Medieval Latin modālis (“pertaining to a mode”), from Latin modus (“mode”). Compare to French, Spanish, and Portuguese modal and Italian modale. By surface analysis, mod(e) + -al.

  1. Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
  2. Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
  6. Relating to the statistical mode.
  7. Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
  8. Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.

    “Dialogs can be modal, in which case the user is required to provide necessary information before work in the main window can continue, or modeless. Modeless dialogs do not prevent the user from interacting with any of the other windows in the application.”

    “a modal dialog; a modal window”

  9. Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.

noun

Etymology: A genericized trademark of Lenzing AG.

  1. A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with chemicals.