modal

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You can find pure silk pyjamas, or bottoms made from modal which is apparently like cotton but resistant to shrinking, fading and super-soft.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a mode.
  2. adjective Grammar Of, relating to, or expressing the mood of a verb.
  3. adjective Music Of, relating to, characteristic of, or composed in any of the modes typical of medieval church music.

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  • It provides realistic multi-modal (sight, sound, and touch) virtual reality training for this difficult but highly accurate procedure that diagnoses and stages lung cancer, the cause of the most cancer deaths worldwide.
  • Editorial Reviews For over five decades, trumpeter / bandleader Miles Davis (1926-91) was a major innovator of cool, modal, avant-garde, and fusion jazz styles. —  Torrentreactor.Net
  • "Android is showing significant market traction, and through D2, manufacturers have the ability to quickly and easily equip such emerging devices with rich multi-modal communications," said Doug Makishima, vice president of marketing and sales at D2
  • Set the initial width of the modal, prior to any content being loaded. initialHeight —  doggdot.us
  • Set the initial height of the modal, prior to any content being loaded. —  doggdot.us
 

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  1. Medieval Latin modālis, from Latin modus, measure; see med- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = F. Spanish Portuguese modal = Italian modale, from Middle Latin modalis, pertaining to a mode, from Latin modus, mode: see mode, n.
 

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/ˈmoʊdəl/
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