module
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈmɒd͡ʒuːl/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈmɒdjuːl/
ipa: /ˈmɑd͡ʒul/
rhymes: -ɒdjuːl
rhymes: -ɒdʒuːl
Forms: form: modules
Etymology: Borrowed from French module, from Latin modulus (“a small measure, a measure, mode, meter”), diminutive of modus (“measure”) (whence mode). Doublet of modulus and mold.
Senses: examples: text: A friend who’s spent decades as an auto mechanic recently confided that he’s grateful to be nearing retirement. “These Teslas,” he told me, “they’re not even cars anymore – they’re computers on wheels. When something goes wrong, you don’t fix it; you just replace entire modules.” What was once a craft that any dedicated person could learn has become an exercise in supervised dependency.
ref: 2025 February 11, Joshua Stylman, “How to Forge the Spectator Class”, in Brownstone Journal:
glosses: A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components.
topics: architecture
glosses: A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.
examples: text: Class modules are similar to form modules except they do not have a visible interface (GUI).
ref: 2001, Phil Jones, Visual Basic: A Complete Course, page 254:
text: When there is more than one protected module in memory, the rules for accessing the code and data sections of a given module treat all the other modules as if they were unprotected memory.
ref: 2013, Helmut Reimer, Norbert Pohlmann, Wolfgang Schneider, ISSE 2013 Securing Electronic Business Processes, page 244:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.
examples: text: Which modules are you studying next year?
glosses: A unit of education covering a single topic.
examples: text: Dragonborn […] first appeared in the Dragons of Despair module (1984) for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as “dragonmen.”
ref: 2011, Michael J. Tresca, The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games, page 81:
glosses: A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for a role-playing game.
examples: text: Modules over a ring are a generalization of abelian groups (which are modules over #92;textstyle#92;mathbb#123;Z#125;).
ref: 1974, Thomas W. Hungerford, Algebra, Springer, page 168:
text: Approximately forty-five years ago K. Morita presented the first major results on equivalences and dualities between categories of modules over a pair of rings.
ref: 2004, Robert R. Colby, Kent R. Fuller, Equivalence and Duality for Module Categories (with Tilting and Cotilting for Rings), Cambridge University Press, page vii:
text: One defines in like manner right K-modules and two-sided K-modules. If K is commutative, then every left K-module is automatically equipped with the structure of right and a two-sided K-module.
ref: 2012, A. A. Kirillov, Elements of the Theory of Representations, Springer, page 29:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
meronyms: element
qualifier: ring theory
glosses: An abelian group equipped with the operation of multiplication by an element of a ring (or another of certain algebraic objects), representing a generalisation of the concept of vector space with scalar multiplication.
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: fractal geometry
glosses: A fractal element.
topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file containing a music sequence that can be played in a tracker (also called mod or music module).
topics: engineering
hydraulics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft.
Hyponyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
sense: algebraic structure
word: vector space
topics: mathematics
sciences
sense: algebraic structure
word: free module
topics: mathematics
sciences
sense: algebraic structure
word: projective module
topics: mathematics
sciences
sense: algebraic structure
word: injective module
topics: astronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: command module
topics: astronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: lunar module
Derived terms: bimodule
body control module
Clifford module
command and service module
comodule
contramodule
cryomodule
cryptomodule
cyclic module
e-module
glycomodule
hypermodule
intermodule
intramodule
load module
lunar module
micromodule
minimodule
modular
modularise
modularised
modularize
modularized
modulate
modulation
modulator
moduled
module pattern
module theory
modulization
modulize
modulus
monogenous module
multimodule
nanomodule
noetherian module
Noetherian module
podule
R-module
semimodule
submodule
supermodule
supramodule
vertical lift module
Related terms: mode
model
moderate
modulus