mode

A mode is a specific way of doing something.

Example: The study combines two different research modes: oral history and written history.

A mode is a fashion or style.

Example: She was always dressed in the latest mode.

A mode is a specific type or form of something.

Example: Heat is a mode of energy transfer, like work, not a substance or other seawater property.

A mode is specific a kind scale.

Example: The Mixolydian mode is a good way for inducing a bluesey kind of mood.

The mode is the number that occurs most often in a group of numbers.

Example: In a normal distribution, with large sets, the mean, median and mode will typically be the same value.