Hypertext Webster Gateway: "modal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Modal \Mo"dal\, a. [Cf. F. modal. See {Mode}.]
1. Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or
form only; relating to form; having the form without the
essence or reality. --Glanvill.
2. (Logic & Metaph.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode
of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
modal
adj 1: (statistics) relating to or constituting the most frequent
value in a distribution; "the modal age at which
American novelists reach their peak is 30" [syn: {modal(a)},
{average}]
2: of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an
ecclesiastical mode
3: relating to or expressing the mood of a verb; "modal
auxiliary"
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