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Modal (textile) Rayon is a semi-synthetic fiber, made from natural sources of regenerated cellulose fiber, cellulose, such as wood and related agricultural products. It has the same molecular structure as cellulose. It is also called viscose. Many types and gr ...

, a textile made from spun cellulose fiber *

Modal analysis Modal analysis is the study of the dynamic properties of systems in the frequency domain. Examples would include measuring the vibration of a car's body when it is attached to a shaker, or the noise pattern in a room when excited by a loudspeak ...

, the study of the dynamic properties of structures under vibrational excitation *

Modal bandwidth Modal bandwidth, in the discipline of telecommunications, refers to the maximal signaling rate for a given distance or – the other way around – the maximal distance for a given signaling rate. The signaling rate can typically be measured in ...

, in the discipline of telecommunications, refers to the signalling rate per distance unit * Modal haplotype, an ancestral haplotype derived from the DNA test results of a specific group of people *

Modal jazz Modal jazz is jazz that makes use of musical modes, often modulating among them to accompany the chords instead of relying on one tonal center used across the piece. Although precedents exist, modal jazz was crystallized as a theory by compose ...

, jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework *

Modal logic Modal logic is a collection of formal systems developed to represent statements about necessity and possibility. It plays a major role in philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and natural language semantics. Modal logics extend other ...

, a type of formal logic that extends the standards of formal logic to include the elements of modality *

Modal matrix In linear algebra, the modal matrix is used in the diagonalization process involving eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Specifically the modal matrix M for the matrix A is the ''n'' × ''n'' matrix formed with the eigenvectors of A as columns in M. It ...

, used in the diagonalization process involving eigenvalues and eigenvectors *

Modal phenomena Cymatics (from grc, κῦμα, translit=kyma, translation=wave) is a subset of modal vibrational phenomena. The term was coined by Hans Jenny (1904-1972), a Swiss follower of the philosophical school known as anthroposophy. Typically the surf ...

* Modal administration, used in Federal Agencies to describe sub-offices or "modes" * Modal transportation, used in transit to describe multiple modes of transit available such as bus, trolley, train, ferry *

Modal score The mode is the value that appears most often in a set of data values. If is a discrete random variable, the mode is the value (i.e, ) at which the probability mass function takes its maximum value. In other words, it is the value that is most ...

, used in testing and education for the most common score *

Modal verb A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a ''likelihood'', ''ability'', ''permission'', ''request'', ''capacity'', ''suggestion'', ''order'', ''obligation'', or ''advice''. Modal verbs generally accompany the b ...

, a type of auxiliary verb that is used to indicate modality *

Modal window In user interface design for computer applications, a modal window is a graphical control element subordinate to an application's main window. A modal window creates a mode that disables the main window but keeps it visible, with the modal window ...

, a child window that requires users to interact with it before they can return to operating the parent application * A trade name for

sulpiride Sulpiride, sold under the brand name Dogmatil among others, is an atypical antipsychotic (although some texts have referred to it as a typical antipsychotic) medication of the benzamide class which is used mainly in the treatment of psychosis a ...

, an atypical antipsychotic drug * Modal Commerce, an American-based company that sells online software to car dealerships

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