Dictionary

multimodal en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mel-der. Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós? Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *medos Latin modus Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Italic *-os Archaic Latin -os Latin -us Latin multimod(us) English -al English multimodal From Latin multimod(us) + English -al.

Meanings

1. Having or employing multiple modes.
   • The push for multimodal models is not entirely new; Google, Facebook, and others introduced automated image-captioning systems nearly a decade ago. 2023 May 19, Matteo Wong, “ChatGPT Is Already Obsolete”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 May 2023:
   • multimodal AI models
   • multimodal transport
   • Over the course of the five-year partnership, Hitachi will deliver a multimodal digital booking system that will include all modes of public transport. 2024 September 18, “Network News: Hitachi to unify TfW bookings”, in RAIL, number 1018, page 11:

Forms

Deriveds

multimodally · multimodalness · multimodality

Relateds

multimodel

Translations (5)

de multimodal (having, or employing multiple modes) · ru мультимода́льный (having, or employing multiple modes) · hy մուլտիմոդալ (having, or employing multiple modes) · el πολυτροπικός (having, or employing multiple modes) · cs multimodální (having, or employing multiple modes)