Többmódos

Többmódos is a Hungarian term used in technical contexts to describe something that operates in more than one mode or modality. It is applied to hardware, software, and theoretical frameworks capable of functioning across multiple states or communication channels. The core idea is flexibility: a többmódos system can switch among distinct operating modes or modalities depending on conditions or user needs.

Etymology: The word is a compound built from több meaning “many” and módos, a form related to mód (mode) in Hungarian. In technical usage, többmódos signals the ability to use multiple modes rather than a single fixed mode. The term is more common in compound adjectives and technical prose than in everyday language.

Examples and usage: In computing and human–machine interaction, többmódos describes multimodal interfaces that combine inputs such as speech, gesture, and touch, or outputs such as audio and visuals. In robotics or control systems, a többmódos controller can operate in automatic, manual, or semi-autonomous modes. The concept also appears in linguistic or cognitive research when describing data or experiments that employ several modalities.

Relation to other terms: The Hungarian standard for the same idea is multimodális. Többmódos appears mainly in compound forms, and is often used interchangeably with multimodális in technical writing, though multimodális is more common in general usage.

See also: multimodális; multimodal interface; human–computer interaction; multimodal data.