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
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Famous quotes containing the word mode:
“The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.”
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)
“Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see—everything, everything through the eye, in one mode of objective curiosity.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.”
—Paul Deman (1919–1983)