Mode (etymology from Latin modus: "manner, tune, measure, due measure, rhythm, melody") may mean:
- Transport mode, a means of transportation
- Block cipher modes of operation, in cryptography
- A technocomplex of stone tools
- Mode of production, a Marxist term for way of producing goods
Places
- Mode, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Illinois
- Mode, Banmauk, a village in Burma
Mathematics
- Mode (statistics), the most common value among a group
- Modes of convergence, a property of a series
- Modes of a linear field
Science
- Normal mode, patterns of vibration in acoustics, electromagnetic theory, etc.,
- Mode shape
- Longitudinal mode
- Transverse mode
- Quasinormal mode, a type of energy disspation of a perturbed object or field
- Starvation mode, a biological condition
Language
- Mode (literature)
- Grammatical mood
- Narrative mode
- Mode series, a quartet of novels by Piers Anthony
- Modes of persuasion, oratorical devices
- The Devil's Mode, a collection of short stories by Anthony Burgess
Music
- Musical mode, a classification system of musical tonalities
- Modus (medieval music), several other technical senses of modus or mode in medieval music theory
- Gregorian mode, a pitch organization of Gregorian chant
Computing
- Modes (Unix), permissions given to users and groups to access files and folders on Unix hosts
- Mode (computer interface), distinct method of operation within a computer system, in which the same user input can produce different results depending of the state of the system
- A game mode, a mode used as a game mechanic in videogames
- a DOS and Windows command line tool for configuration of devices and the console
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a method of digital communication
- data types in some programming languages (e.g. EL/1)
Popular culture
- Mode Records, a record label
- MODE Magazine, a now out-of-print US women's fashion magazine created specifically to feature fashions over a US size 14 with a Vogue magazine-like creative aesthetic; see plus-size model
- Mode magazine, a fictional fashion magazine which is the setting for the ABC series Ugly Betty
- Fashion
- Explosive Mode, an album
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective—the unconscious objective of a disunited people—has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.
— Constance Rourke (1885–1941)