Meanings
alternative multi-modal
- Having or employing multiple modes.
multimodal transport
3 more examples
multimodal AI models
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 2023Over 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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*mel-
- Proto-Indo-European*ml̥tós?
- Proto-Italic*moltos
- Latinmultus
- Proto-Indo-European*med-
- Proto-Indo-European*médos
- Proto-Italic*medos
- Latinmodus
- Latinmultimod(us)
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishmultimodal
From Latin multimod(us) + English -al.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech multimodální
- multimodálníhaving, or employing multiple modes
German multimodal
- multimodalhaving, or employing multiple modes
Greek πολυτροπικός
- πολυτροπικός (polytropikós)having, or employing multiple modes
Russian мультимода́льный
- мультимода́льный (mulʹtimodálʹnyj)having, or employing multiple modes
Cite this entry
multimodal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multimodal
“multimodal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multimodal. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “multimodal,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multimodal.
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