| modal alteration | In electric irritability, a change in the mode of response of degenerated muscle to electric stimulation, the contraction being sluggish instead of quick. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| modalist | One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| modality | A method of treatment. (16 Dec 1997) |
| mode | 1. Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing. "The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found." (Jer. Taylor) "A table richly spread in regal mode." (Milton) 2. Prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode. "The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode." (Macaulay) 3. Variety; gradation; degree. 4. <psychology> Any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter. "Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances." (Locke) 5. <logic> The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood. 6. Same as Mood. 7. The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc, of ancient Greek music. In modern music, only the major and the minor mode, of whatever key, are recognised. 8. A kind of silk. See Alamode. Synonym: Method, manner. See Method. Origin: L. Modus a measure, due or proper measure, bound, manner, form; akin to E. Mete: cf. F. Mode. See Mete, and cf. Commodious, Mood in grammar, Modus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| model | 1. A representation of something, often idealised or modified to make it conceptually easier to understand. 2. Something to be imitated. 3. In dentistry, a cast. Origin: It. Midello, fr. L. Modus, measure, standard (05 Mar 2000) |
| modeling | 1. In learning theory, the acquiring and learning of a new skill by observing and imitating that behaviour being performed by another individual. 2. In behaviour modification, a treatment procedure whereby the therapist or another significant person presents (models) the target behaviour which the learner is to imitate and make part of his repertoire. 3. A continuous process by which a bone is altered in size and shape during its growth by resorption and formation of bone at different sites and rates. (05 Mar 2000) |
| modeling composition | A thermoplastic material usually composed of gum damar and prepared chalk, used especially for making dental impressions. Synonym: impression compound, modeling composition, modeling compound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| modeling compound | A thermoplastic material usually composed of gum damar and prepared chalk, used especially for making dental impressions. Synonym: impression compound, modeling composition, modeling compound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| modeling plastic | A thermoplastic material usually composed of gum damar and prepared chalk, used especially for making dental impressions. Synonym: impression compound, modeling composition, modeling compound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| models, anatomic | Three-dimensional representation to show anatomic structures. (12 Dec 1998) |
| models, biological | Theoretical representations that simulate the behaviour or activity of biological processes or diseases. For disease models in living animals, disease models, animal is available. Biological models include the use of mathematical equations, computers, and other electronic equipment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| models, cardiovascular | Theoretical representations that simulate the behaviour or activity of the cardiovascular system, processes, or phenomena; includes the use of mathematical equations, computers and other electronic equipment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| models, chemical | Theoretical representations that simulate the behaviour or activity of chemical processes or phenomena; includes the use of mathematical equations, computers, and other electronic equipment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| models, econometric | The application of mathematical formulas and statistical techniques to the testing and quantifying of economic theories and the solution of economic problems. (12 Dec 1998) |
| models, economic | Statistical models of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, as well as of financial considerations. For the application of statistics to the testing and quantifying of economic theories models, econometric is available. (12 Dec 1998) |