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 body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“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)
“Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)