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 only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity, and, accepting the tide of being which floats us into the secret of nature, work and live, work and live, and all unawares the advancing soul has built and forged for itself a new condition, and the question and the answer are one.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)