modalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈməʊdəl/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈmoʊdəl/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈməʉdəl/
• 韻: -əʊdəl

形容詞

modal (comparative more modal, superlative most modal)

1. Of, or relating to a mode or modus.
2. (grammar) Of, relating to, or describing the mood of a clause.
3. (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.
   1. (of music, by extension) In a mode which is not major or minor scale, the standard modes used in the Western musical tradition.
4. (logic) Of, or relating to the modality between propositions.
5. (statistics) Relating to the statistical mode.
6. (computing) Having separate modes in which user input has different effects.

   Antonym: modeless

7. (graphical user interface) Requiring immediate user interaction and thus presented so that it cannot be closed or interacted behind until a decision is made.
   • a. 2011, “Dialog Windows”, in Qt Widgets Documentation‎, archived from the original on 7 February 2020:

     Dialogs can be modal, in which case the user is required to provide necessary information before work in the main window can continue, or modeless. Modeless dialogs do not prevent the user from interacting with any of the other windows in the application.

   a modal dialog; a modal window

   Antonym: modeless

8. (metaphysics) Relating to the form of a thing rather to any of its attributes.

同意語

• forming
• conditioning

派生語

関連する語

名詞

modal (plural modals)

1. (logic) A modal proposition.
2. (linguistics) A modal form, notably a modal auxiliary.
3. (grammar) A modal verb.
   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar: A First Course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 61:

     Using the same type of distributional criterion, we could argue that only a Verb (in its base form) can occur in the position marked — in (23) below to complete the sentence:
     (23)     They/it can —
     [...]
     Conversely, the only type of word which could be used to begin a three-word sentence such as (25) below:
     (25)     — I be frank?
     is a Modal: cf. [...]

4. (graphical user interface) A modal window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
   • 1996, OOPSLA '96: Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, volume 31, numbers 10-12:

     Modal screen elements are subtrees which, when activated, disable all elements external to them. Examples of modals are yes-no message boxes and the application itself.

派生語

参考

• semimodal

Further reading

• “modal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “modal”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

語源 2

A genericized trademark of Lenzing AG.

名詞

modal (uncountable)

1. (fabric) A semi-synthetic fabric, a very soft kind of rayon textile made from beech tree pulp and processed with chemicals.

アナグラム

• MOALD, Dolma, molad, dolma, domal