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 character of the logger’s admiration is betrayed by his very mode of expressing it.... He admires the log, the carcass or corpse, more than the tree.... What right have you to celebrate the virtues of the man you murdered?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind. It is simply the mode in which all phenomena are reasoned about, rendered precise and exact.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)