(slang, sports, video games) A high level of performance.

A mode of an oscillating system in which all parts of the system move sinusoidally with the same frequency and with a fixed phase relation. The motion described by the normal modes is called resonance.

(Marxism) A combination of productive forces such as labour power and means of production, and social and technical relations of production such as property, power, laws and regulations, etc.

(attributive) brightness mode: a common kind of two-dimensional ultrasound image / (attributive) A divergence-free, curl-only polarization signal in the cosmic microwave background radiation.

A testing/demonstration mode of mixing consoles where the controls methodically move by themselves. It is used both to create a visual spectacle and to prove that controls are not malfunctioning.

(rhetoric) rhetorical mode

(rhetoric) One of the several ways of writing that include variety, conventions, and purposes of writing, such as exposition, argumentation, description, and narration.

(mathematics) An eigenvector that has a vanishingly small eigenvalue

(Internet) A technique used by some web browsers to maintain backward compatibility with older web pages that do not comply with modern standards. When such a page is detected, it is rendered in the older, non-standard way.

(music) a mode whose scale is the same as a major key with the seventh scale degree lowered by one half step, with the interval pattern: