The phrase "alternate mode" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a different or alternative way of operating or functioning, often in the context of technology or systems.
Example: "The device can switch to an alternate mode for energy-saving purposes."
Alternatives: "alternative setting" or "different mode".
Nanotechnology provides an emerging potent alternate mode of cancer therapy.
Perhaps he did not realise that the plane had switched to the alternate mode that would provide him with far less assistance.
An alternate mode of operation (timing) ties the signals from the outer segments to ground so that only signals from the center MCP generate triggers.
Alternate mode generates an image of a mono-chromatic, circular PSF for a given sky position derived from the integrated enclosed counts fraction.
We recently discovered an alternate mode of intracellular transport in starfish oocytes involving a contractile F-actin meshwork that mediates chromosome congression [7].
Although pelvic abscesses have traditionally been drained by surgery or under radiologic guidance, a small subset of patients who are not candidates for these interventions require an alternate mode of drainage.
An England Rugby 2015 spokeswoman said: "We put our contingency plans in place with spectators being diverted to alternate modes of transport.
"When the tolerance of the drivers exceeds their waiting time, that's when they'll use alternate modes of transportation," Mr. Lettiere said.
She investigates the ways in which recent digital art experiments that mostly engage with the virtual dimensions of sound suggest alternate modes of perception, temporality, and experience.
He took on his ventures as a search for alternate modes of living and being — not mere anthropological study, but more like continuing education in existential possibility.
Instead, we are left with a heroic effort, possibly doomed from the start, to instil in readers alternate modes of fascination, radically out of step with our attention-deficient and ever "rationalising" culture.
