polymodalityn.

Brit.

/ˌpɒlɪmə(ʊ)ˈdalᵻti/, U.S.

/ˈˌpɑliˌmoʊˈdælədi/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: poly- comb. form, modality n.

Etymology: < poly- comb. form + modality n. In sense 1 apparently after Italian polimodalità (1924). In sense 2 after polymodal adj.; compare earlier unimodality n. at unimodal adj. Derivatives, bimodality n., multimodality n.

1. Music. The use of two or more modes (mode n. 1c) in a piece.

ΚΠ

c1924 A. Casella Evol. Music throughout Hist. Perfect Cadence facing p. 53 (title) Part III. The present period (polymodality, tonal simultaneity and atonality).

1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 289 The slow destruction of the key system that we find in Milhaud's polytonality or Vaughan Williams' polymodality.

1952 R. Stevenson Music in Mexico i. 7 For those whose ears have become conditioned by long familiarity with the European diatonic system, the ‘polymodality’ of indigenous music inevitably sounds as if it were ‘polytonality’.

1994 F. Macnicol & M. Steiner tr. J. Kárpáti Bartók's Chamber Mus. v. 176 It is not possible to interpret every single one of Bartók's chromatic themes or twelve-degree structures as polymodality.

2. Statistics. = multimodality n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > distribution > having normal distribution > having plural modes

multimodalism1902

multimodality1902

bimodality1903

polymodality1957

1957 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 26 13 Harding (1949) has demonstrated the usefulness of probability paper for resolving polymodality in overlapping frequency distributions.

1975 Nature 28 Aug. 724/1 Techniques based on sorting cells after digestion of the tissue would certainly reveal polymodality.

1994 Paleobiology 20 492/2 Histograms for individual principal components were examined for polymodality.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	polymodality
释义	polymodalityn. Brit. /ˌpɒlɪmə(ʊ)ˈdalᵻti/, U.S. /ˈˌpɑliˌmoʊˈdælədi/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: poly- comb. form, modality n. Etymology: < poly- comb. form + modality n. In sense 1 apparently after Italian polimodalità (1924). In sense 2 after polymodal adj.; compare earlier unimodality n. at unimodal adj. Derivatives, bimodality n., multimodality n. 1. Music. The use of two or more modes (mode n. 1c) in a piece. ΚΠ c1924 A. Casella Evol. Music throughout Hist. Perfect Cadence facing p. 53 (title) Part III. The present period (polymodality, tonal simultaneity and atonality). 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 289 The slow destruction of the key system that we find in Milhaud's polytonality or Vaughan Williams' polymodality. 1952 R. Stevenson Music in Mexico i. 7 For those whose ears have become conditioned by long familiarity with the European diatonic system, the ‘polymodality’ of indigenous music inevitably sounds as if it were ‘polytonality’. 1994 F. Macnicol & M. Steiner tr. J. Kárpáti Bartók's Chamber Mus. v. 176 It is not possible to interpret every single one of Bartók's chromatic themes or twelve-degree structures as polymodality. 2. Statistics. = multimodality n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > distribution > having normal distribution > having plural modes multimodalism1902 multimodality1902 bimodality1903 polymodality1957 1957 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 26 13 Harding (1949) has demonstrated the usefulness of probability paper for resolving polymodality in overlapping frequency distributions. 1975 Nature 28 Aug. 724/1 Techniques based on sorting cells after digestion of the tissue would certainly reveal polymodality. 1994 Paleobiology 20 492/2 Histograms for individual principal components were examined for polymodality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1924
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