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Meaning of modal

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  modal
      adj 1: relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a
             distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists
             reach their peak is 30" [syn: {modal(a)}, {average}]
      2: of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an
         ecclesiastical mode
      3: relating to or expressing the mood of a verb; "modal
         auxiliary"
      n 1: an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to
           express modality [syn: {modal auxiliary verb}, {modal
           auxiliary}, {modal verb}, {modal}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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