"multimodal" meaning in English

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          "text": "multimodal transport",
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          "text": "multimodal AI models",
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          "text": "The push for multimodal models is not entirely new; Google, Facebook, and others introduced automated image-captioning systems nearly a decade ago.",
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          "roman": "mulʹtimodálʹnyj",
          "sense": "having, or employing multiple modes",
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