ADJECTIVE | all | modal, average | relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution |
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pert | modal | of or relating to a musical mode | |
pert | modal | relating to or expressing the mood of a verb | |
NOUN | communication | modal, modal auxiliary verb, modal auxiliary, modal verb | an auxiliary verb (such as 'can' or 'will') that is used to express modality |
Sounds | mow'dahl | |
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Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... |
Meaning | relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution. | |
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Example | "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30" | |
Synonym | average | |
Category | statistics | A branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters |
Broader | normal | conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm |
Spanish | modal | |
Catalan | modal | |
Nouns | mode | the most frequent value of a random variable |
Meaning | Of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode. | |
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Spanish | modal | |
Nouns | mode | any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic / diatonic notes within an octave |
Meaning | relating to or expressing the mood of a verb. | |
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Example | "modal auxiliary" | |
Spanish | modal | |
Catalan | modal | |
Nouns | mode, modality | verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker |
Meaning | An auxiliary verb (such as 'can' or 'will') that is used to express modality. | |
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Synonyms | modal auxiliary verb, modal auxiliary, modal verb | |
Broader | auxiliary verb | A verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with |
Spanish | modal, verbo modal | |
Catalan | modal |
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