modality
noun /məʊˈdæləti/
/məʊˈdæləti/
(plural modalities)
- [countable] (formal) the particular way in which something exists, is experienced or is done
形式；样式；方式；形态 - They are researching a different modality of treatment for the disease.
他们正在研究这种疾病的另一种疗法。
- They are researching a different modality of treatment for the disease.
- [uncountable] (linguistics
语言学 情态 - [countable] (biology
生物 感觉模式；感觉形式 - the visual and auditory modalities
视觉和听觉
- the visual and auditory modalities
词源early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin modalitas, from modalis, from Latin modus ‘measure’, from an Indo-European root shared by mete; compare with mood in its grammatical sense.