The sound forms patterns called modes, as shown in the diagram.

Certain groupings of neumes were used to indicate repeating rhythms called rhythmic modes.

What we have overlooked is that, when atoms absorb and emit light, they do so from what are called modes.

Inertial waves in a closed container are often called inertial modes.

The thing about molecular vibrations is that they have specific frequencies, called modes.

The entire Earth can also oscillate in forms that are called normal modes.

Different ways of relating signs to their objects are called modes of signification.

Messiaen used modes which he called modes of limited transposition.

He uses folk scales which have different kinds of scales called modes.

The standing wave patterns produced are called modes.