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transmodal

transmodal adjective: crossing, occurring in, or using more than one mode or modality.

Adjective

transmodal (not comparable)

  1. Crossing, occurring in, or using more than one mode or modality.
  2. Using more than one mode of transportation or shipping.
    • Excess capacities for some modes and system inefficiencies, to some extent, for all modes continue to pose major concerns. This program by its structure and definition is transmodal; however, the issue of substituting telecommunications for transportation services can have a significant impact upon...1978, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Analysis of DOT Near-term Transportation Research, Development, and Demonstration Activities, Pasadena: Jet Propulsion...
  3. Relating to more than one sense, cognitive process, or region of the brain.
    • The highest level of cognitive processing occurs in regions referred to as transmodal areas. These areas are composed of heteromodal, paralimbic, and limbic regions that are collectively linked, in parallel, to other transmodal regions.2015, Theodore A. Stern, Maurizio Fava, Timothy E. Wilens, Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 806

Origin of transmodal

From trans- + modal.

Words formed from transmodal

Questions about transmodal

What does transmodal mean?
Transmodal means crossing, occurring in, or using more than one mode or modality.
What part of speech is transmodal?
Transmodal is an adjective.

Words near transmodal in the dictionary

  1. transmitter
  2. transmitters
  3. transmittible
  4. transmitting
  5. transmittivity
  6. transmodal
  7. transmodalities
  8. transmodality
  9. transmodally
  10. transmodern
  11. transmodernity

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