Talk:Mode

Icons

Maybe adding some icons would help to clear up all the different modes (linguistics, physics, fashion, etc). I'm sure most of these already have icons, all we'd need to do is find and link them. --STGM 19:59, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

This is a cool idea - I can add the philosophy icon later today. FranksValli 20:26, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Please see MoS:DP before you do this. Tedernst | talk 18:51, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

removed entries

Per MoS:DP, entries on dab pages should have one link only, to the page being disambiguated. I've removed these entries because they don't have such a link:

• In fashion, the mode is the trend followed by the largest number of people.
• In complex systems, in general, a mode is a specific type of operation: for example in a military avionics system, a fighter plane radar might be in track mode or scan mode or track while scan mode, with distinctly different behavior and intention.
• In computer file systems, a common element of metadata in a file is the mode, which is usually understood to mean the type of the file and the set of permissions it has. See stat (Unix).
  • • An example of waveguide mode: fiber optic mode.
    • An example of cavity mode: laser mode.
  • An example of acoustic modes: An "ideal" guitar string of length L, fixed at both ends, will have modes in the shape of sin(nxπ/L), where n is the mode number. See also: Ernst Chladni, cymatics. If a circular drumhead rather than a string vibrates, the mathematics is different and more involved.
• In linguistics, mode is the channel of communcation such as spoken, written or signed.
• In philosophy, a mode is a non-necessary (contingent) property of a substance, as opposed to a necessary property, which is called an attribute.

When there is an article to link to, they can go back. Tedernst | talk 18:51, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

i dont get it

i dont understand this anfd it got no mathematics one either —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.251.46.101 (talk) 00:32, 28 February 2007 (UTC).

Mode is the most common number in a sequence —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.2.126.89 (talk) 19:15, 6 December 2007 (UTC)