Modus vivendi tunnel, you collect and process, and your processing operation would be a thousand times more profitable." The term often refers to Anglo-French relations from the 1815 end of the Napoleonic Wars to the 1904 Entente Cordiale. Modus vivendi Modus vivendi is a Latin phrase that means "mode of living" or “way of life”. It often is used to mean an arrangement or agreement that allows conflicting parties to coexist in peace. In science it is used to describe lifestyles. "Modus" means "mode", "way", "method", or "manner". "Vivendi" means "of living". The phrase is often used to describe informal and temporary
Modus (medieval music) notation system of mensural notation (after c.1300), and in the century or so preceding the invention of that system, the term "modus" was used to describe a part of the overall metric organisation of a piece, comparable not to a modern time signature, but rather to what is sometimes called hypermeter—organization of measures into regular groups of twos or threes. It referred to the division of the note called a "longa" into either three ("modus perfectus") or two ("modus imperfectus") "breves", for which reason it is called "modus longarum". Similar divisions on subsequently lower levels were described by the terms