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)

    “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)

    “If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)