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:
“Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.”
—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)
“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)