Usually means: Pertaining to form or mode.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word modal:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. modal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. modal: Merriam-Webster
  3. modal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. modal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. modal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. modal: Vocabulary.com
  7. Modal, modal: Wordnik
  8. modal (verb): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. modal: Wiktionary
  10. modal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. modal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. modal: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Modal, modal: Dictionary.com
  14. modal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. modal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Modal (textile), Modal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Modal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. modal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. modal: Rhymezone
  20. Modal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. modal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. modal: FreeDictionary.org
  23. modal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. modal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Modal: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. modal: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. modal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Modal: Visionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modal: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. modal: Urban Dictionary
  2. modal: The Folk File

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See modally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
adjective:  (grammar) Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
adjective:  (music) Of, relating to, or composed in the musical modi by which an octave is divided, associated with emotional moods in Ancient — and in medieval ecclesiastical — music.
adjective:  (of music, by extension) In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
adjective:  (logic) Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
adjective:  (statistics) Relating to the statistical mode.
adjective:  (computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
adjective:  (graphical user interface) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
adjective:  (metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.
noun:  (logic) A modal proposition.
noun:  (linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
noun:  (grammar) A modal verb.
noun:  (graphical user interface) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
noun:  (fabric) A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with chemicals.

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