Modality
noun
A particular method or way of doing something.
There are different modalities of treatment for this illness.
Often appears as...
- treatment modality
- therapeutic modality
noun
The quality of being modal.
Grammatical modality shows uncertainty or necessity.
Often appears as...
- modal verb
- modality system
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Academic
noun
A special sense, like touch, sight or hearing.
Each sensory modality provides different information about the world to the brain.
Often appears as...
- sensory modality
- visual modality
noun
A possible state of things.
Different modalities are imagined and assessed in scenario planning.
Often appears as...
- different modalities
- actual modality
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A particular method or way of doing something.
There are different modalities of treatment for this illness.
Often appears as...
- treatment modality
- therapeutic modality
noun
The quality of being modal.
Grammatical modality shows uncertainty or necessity.
Often appears as...
- modal verb
- modality system
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A special sense, like touch, sight or hearing.
Each sensory modality provides different information about the world to the brain.
Often appears as...
- sensory modality
- visual modality
noun
A possible state of things.
Different modalities are imagined and assessed in scenario planning.
Often appears as...
- different modalities
- actual modality
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Broad Usage
Used in various contexts to describe methods in education, medicine, and more.
Choose the best learning modality that suits your style.
Pro Tip 2/2Professional Tone
Often appears in formal and professional discussions about methods or approaches.
The company adopted a new modality for employee training.
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approachformmannermethodmodestylesystemtechnics
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Allan Jones: A map of...
It's basically a large data set of information that's all freely available to any scientist around the world. They don't even have to log in to come use this tool, mine this data, find interesting things out with this. So here's the modalities that we put together. You'll start to recognize these things from what we've collected before.
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Julian Treasure: Shh!...
Have a foreground, a background, all in beautiful proportion. It's fun to get into designing with sound. If you can't do it yourself, get a professional to do it for you. Sound design is the future, and I think it's the way we're going to change the way the world sounds. I'm going to just run quickly through eight modalities,
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Robert Gupta: Between...
fundamentally different brain structure than non-musicians, how music, and listening to music, could just light up the entire brain, from our prefrontal cortex all the way back to our cerebellum, how music was becoming a neuropsychiatric modality to help children with autism, to help people struggling
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Jeff Dean: AI isn't as...
that are going to be helpful in solving that problem. Second problem is that most of our models today deal with only a single modality of data -- with images, or text or speech, but not all of these all at once. But think about how you go about the world. You're continuously using all your senses
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Imaging at a trillion...
build endoscopes that can see deep inside the body around occluders and also for cardio scopes but of course because of tissue and blood this is quite challenging so this is really call for scientist to start thinking about femto photography as we a new imaging modality to solve next
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Why the universe seems...
There's nothing inherent about red that makes it long wavelength. The point is that the nature of the model is governed by how it is to be used, rather than by the sensory modality involved. J.B.S. Haldane himself had something to say about animals whose world is dominated by smell.
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The four D’s to help...
engaging in some of the groundbreaking discoveries and finding new modalities of treating cancer that was never possible before instead of drugs and small molecules they're using biologics to be able to attack cancer at a source for example this is there's a method
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Wade Davis: Cultures at...
this blandly amorphous generic world view not only would we see the entire range of the human imagination reduced to a more narrow modality of thought, but that we would wake from a dream one day having forgotten there were even other possibilities.
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Ashraf Ghani: How to fix...
we need to recognize that just the simple things that are infrastructure -- it takes six years to deliver infrastructure. In our world. Any meaningful sort of thing. But the modality of attention,
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
yes are not sort of a passive am upon some defendants a radio Korea will use the caucus modality dijo que WB Quebec ship am new suit at the owner he 100
Video examples
Allan Jones: A map of...
It's basically a large data set of information that's all freely available to any scientist around the world. They don't even have to log in to come use this tool, mine this data, find interesting things out with this. So here's the modalities that we put together. You'll start to recognize these things from what we've collected before.
Video examples
Julian Treasure: Shh!...
Have a foreground, a background, all in beautiful proportion. It's fun to get into designing with sound. If you can't do it yourself, get a professional to do it for you. Sound design is the future, and I think it's the way we're going to change the way the world sounds. I'm going to just run quickly through eight modalities,
Video examples
Robert Gupta: Between...
fundamentally different brain structure than non-musicians, how music, and listening to music, could just light up the entire brain, from our prefrontal cortex all the way back to our cerebellum, how music was becoming a neuropsychiatric modality to help children with autism, to help people struggling
Video examples
Jeff Dean: AI isn't as...
that are going to be helpful in solving that problem. Second problem is that most of our models today deal with only a single modality of data -- with images, or text or speech, but not all of these all at once. But think about how you go about the world. You're continuously using all your senses
Video examples
Imaging at a trillion...
build endoscopes that can see deep inside the body around occluders and also for cardio scopes but of course because of tissue and blood this is quite challenging so this is really call for scientist to start thinking about femto photography as we a new imaging modality to solve next
Video examples
Why the universe seems...
There's nothing inherent about red that makes it long wavelength. The point is that the nature of the model is governed by how it is to be used, rather than by the sensory modality involved. J.B.S. Haldane himself had something to say about animals whose world is dominated by smell.
Video examples
The four D’s to help...
engaging in some of the groundbreaking discoveries and finding new modalities of treating cancer that was never possible before instead of drugs and small molecules they're using biologics to be able to attack cancer at a source for example this is there's a method
Video examples
Wade Davis: Cultures at...
this blandly amorphous generic world view not only would we see the entire range of the human imagination reduced to a more narrow modality of thought, but that we would wake from a dream one day having forgotten there were even other possibilities.
Video examples
Ashraf Ghani: How to fix...
we need to recognize that just the simple things that are infrastructure -- it takes six years to deliver infrastructure. In our world. Any meaningful sort of thing. But the modality of attention,
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
yes are not sort of a passive am upon some defendants a radio Korea will use the caucus modality dijo que WB Quebec ship am new suit at the owner he 100
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Keith Thurman
American Boxer
This business is a tightrope between ultimate ego and absolute devastation. You could lose. You could get knocked out. You could get in a car accident. I want to deal with the total truth of the situation. When you cross-reference the paths your life might take and modalities that might apply to you, I find I'm more at ease in a humble ground.
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Ismail Kadare
Albanian Novelist
For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.
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Himesh Reshammiya
Indian Actor
I was really sickened with people passing on comments that I have nasal touch while singing. Naturally, when anyone sings with high-pitched octaves, some notes may slight get in touch modalities with nasal, and that doesn't actually mean 'nasal singing.
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Edith Stein
German Saint
The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.
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Erin Gruwell
American Writer
When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.
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Pooja Bedi
Indian Actress
I've been actively doing a lot of courses and research into healing modalities, alternative therapies, science, physics and metaphysics.
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Fatih Birol
Turkish Economist
Industry has to find a way. together with the governments, to find new modes, new modalities for transportation.
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Joni Mitchell
Canadian Musician
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
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Jillian Michaels
American Athlete
I train in different modalities so that each muscle is targeted twice a week, with two days of rest in between.
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Shahid Khan
Pakistani Businessman
Jacksonville has exceptionally good talent in the areas of modality activities.
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Keith Thurman
American Boxer
This business is a tightrope between ultimate ego and absolute devastation. You could lose. You could get knocked out. You could get in a car accident. I want to deal with the total truth of the situation. When you cross-reference the paths your life might take and modalities that might apply to you, I find I'm more at ease in a humble ground.
Quote examples
Ismail Kadare
Albanian Novelist
For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.
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Himesh Reshammiya
Indian Actor
I was really sickened with people passing on comments that I have nasal touch while singing. Naturally, when anyone sings with high-pitched octaves, some notes may slight get in touch modalities with nasal, and that doesn't actually mean 'nasal singing.
Quote examples
Edith Stein
German Saint
The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.
Quote examples
Erin Gruwell
American Writer
When you're too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities - kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.
Quote examples
Pooja Bedi
Indian Actress
I've been actively doing a lot of courses and research into healing modalities, alternative therapies, science, physics and metaphysics.
Quote examples
Fatih Birol
Turkish Economist
Industry has to find a way. together with the governments, to find new modes, new modalities for transportation.
Quote examples
Joni Mitchell
Canadian Musician
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song.
Quote examples
Jillian Michaels
American Athlete
I train in different modalities so that each muscle is targeted twice a week, with two days of rest in between.
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Shahid Khan
Pakistani Businessman
Jacksonville has exceptionally good talent in the areas of modality activities.
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