Mode

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:

    “Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one’s ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
    —Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

    “Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.”
    —Paul Deman (1919–1983)