Noun(1) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility(2) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker(3) a particular sense(4) a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
Noun(1) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility(2) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker(3) a particular sense(4) a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
(1) Laparoscopy can be used as a diagnostic modality in situations where the cause of abdominal pain is not known.(2) In English, such verbs have largely replaced the subjunctive mood, and three kinds of modality can be distinguished for them.(3) Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound.(4) The modality of u201cworse with activityu201d is associated with Rhus Tox(5) the harmony had a touch of modality(6) It was a conscious construction, an amalgam of Middle Eastern melismata and rhythms, Renaissance modality , and, oddly enough, Baroque counterpoint.(7) Despite the expense, radiological investigation will remain the diagnostic modality of choice for the near future owing to the poor specificity of tumour markers in a clinical context.(8) Secondly, all the various kinds of modality can be expressed (some more idiomatically than others) without the use of the modal verbs.(9) There is an air of reflective modality about this recital, and yet it is Edmund Rubbra rather than Vaughan Williams to whom the greater part of the performance time is devoted.(10) In this way the phenomenological reality of the spiritual modality of being could be demonstrated scientifically.(11) The u2018couldu2019, as I said, involves some other modality .(12) I will say that some philosophers somehow change the modality in this characterization from can to must.(13) the harmony had a touch of modality(14) There's a feeling of Renaissance modality to it - church music, if you will, without the official prayer.(15) They inhabit some idiosyncratic space between harmony and modality , neither more one than the other.(16) If the modality concerns a past-time situation, the modal as such does not appear in a past-tense form.
