relating to mode or form as opposed to substance

this will see faster journey times and greater frequency, stimulating accelerated modal shift from the car to the bus

relating to a value that occurs most frequently in a given set of data

patients aged from 2 days to 23 months (modal age group 0–3 months)

of or denoting the mood of a verb

of or denoting music using melodies or harmonies based on modes other than the ordinary major and minor scales

in the medieval period music became less modal and more tonal

the best-known 20th century Requiem, full of modal harmonies and effortless polyphony

(of a proposition) in which the predicate is affirmed of the subject with some qualification, or which involves the affirmation of possibility, impossibility, necessity, or contingency

his world-leading research in modal logic and category theory

a modal word or construction

a type of rayon fibre or fabric that has high strength when wet, made mainly from beechwood pulp

modal is shrink-resistant and unlikely to fade

the scarves are made of a soft, finely knit modal fabric