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🧠 In manner or logic 🎵 By musical mode 📊 By most common value
modally

modally

7.9
In a way that shows the most common value in a set of data
  • adverb
  • /ˈmoʊdəli/
  • Specialized
: modalmente
  • In this survey, participants modally selected option B as their favorite.

Examples

  • The data were modally distributed, with most responses falling into one category.

  • The results were modally clustered around a single answer, showing a clear preference.

  • The data was grouped modally to identify the most common values.

  • They analyzed the results modally to find trends.

  • The data were modally distributed, with most responses falling into one category.

  • The results were modally clustered around a single answer, showing a clear preference.

  • They analyzed the results modally to find trends.

Surface Forms

modally positive

Morphology

modally = modal (transparent) = mode + al + ly

Regular adverbial formation from 'modal' (pertaining to the statistical mode) using '-ly'.

Etymology

Modally comes from the Latin root modus meaning 'measure' or 'manner', and it shares the root with the English word mode. In data and statistics, to describe something modally is to speak in terms of the 'mode' or the 'most common value', so it points to what happens most often.