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In mathematics, the element that appears most frequently in a given set of data. For example, the mode for the data 0, 0, 9, 9, 9, 12, 87, 87 is 9.

The mode together with the median and arithmetic mean make up the average of a set of data. In addition it is useful to know the range or spread of the data.

When dealing with grouped data, the modal class represents the most frequent group.

mode

In music, an ancient or exotic scale of five or more pitches to the octave, often identified with a particular emotion, ritual function, time, or season, to which music is composed or improvised.



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From the time the first person said and proved that the number of births or of crimes is subject to mathematical laws, and that this or that mode of government is determined by certain geographical and economic conditions, and that certain relations of population to soil produce migrations of peoples, the foundations on which history had been built were destroyed in their essence.
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Its difficulty was much enhanced by the mode of publication; for, it would be very unreasonable to expect that many readers, pursuing a story in portions from month to month through nineteen months, will, until they have it before them complete, perceive the relations of its finer threads to the whole pattern which is always before the eyes of the story-weaver at his loom.
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