ETYM Latin modus a measure, due or proper measure, bound, manner, form; akin to Eng. mete: cf. French mode. Related to Mete, Commodious, Mood in grammar, Modus.
(Homonym: mowed).
1. Any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave; SYN. musical mode.
2. The most frequent value of a random variable.

In music, an ancient or exotic scale of five or more pitches to the octave, often identified with a particular emotion, ritual function, time, or season, to which music is composed or improvised.

In mathematics, the element that appears most frequently in a given set of data. For example, the mode for the data 0, 0, 9, 9, 9, 12, 87, 87 is 9.

The operational state of a computer or a program. For example, edit mode is the state in which a program accepts changes to a file. See also address mode, compatibility mode, safe mode, video mode, virtual real mode.