modality

noun11

1. •
   The fact of being modal.
2. •
   A method of diagnosis or therapy.

   • If a port-wine stain has been treated with another modality, such as the argon, CO2, or KTP laser, electrocautery, radiation, or tattooing, FPDL treatment may provide less lightening and improvement. — 2001
3. •
   The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode.
4. •
   The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker.
5. •
   Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)
6. •
   The quality of being limited by a condition.
7. •
   A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre.
8. •
   The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory).

   • Modalities of structuration, then, are simply ways in which rules and resources are knowingly used by people in interactions. — 2010
9. •
   The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes.
10. •
    The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations.
11. •
    That whether a zodiac sign is cardinal, fixed or mutable