(music) One of several ancient Greek scales. / (music) One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.

Style or fashion; popular trend.

(slang) Put in an embarrassing situation. / outmoded.

simple past tense and past participle of mode

plural of mode

(video games) A demonstration mode intended to attract potential players to an arcade game.

(computer graphics) A mode in which the application updates a set of graphical objects which are stored and displayed by the graphics library, contrasting with immediate mode.

(computer graphics) A mode in which the application is directly responsible for rendering graphics to the display, contrasting with retained mode.

Either of two modes in which a device is designed to operate

(physics) Describing a laser in which several modes of oscillation are synchronized so as to generate a strong, short pulse of light