Definition of "modal" []

• Of, relating to, or characteristic of a mode. (adjective)
• Grammar Of, relating to, or expressing the mood of a verb. (adjective)
• Music Of, relating to, characteristic of, or composed in any of the modes typical of medieval church music. (adjective)
• Philosophy Of or relating to mode without referring to substance. (adjective)
• Logic Expressing or characterized by modality. (adjective)

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• "According to the modal analogue, a cat or a person or a table would be a ˜transworld individual™ with ˜modal parts™ in different possible worlds, and not wholly present in any of them.)"
• "Hence the term modal jazz, which is used to describe the music on "Kind of Blue.""
• "I agree with you and deeply disagree with what you call modal realism, because I do not believe that mathematical objects and systems exist, in anything like the same meaning of existence that the physical universe exists."