module
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: modules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.
pos: noun
gloss: A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.
pos: noun
examples: Class modules are similar to form modules except they do not have a visible interface (GUI).
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.
gloss: A unit of education covering a single topic.
pos: noun
examples: Which modules are you studying next year?
gloss: A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for a role-playing game.
pos: noun
examples: Dragonborn […] first appeared in the Dragons of Despair module (1984) for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as “dragonmen.”
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Modules over a ring are a generalization of abelian groups (which are modules over #92;textstyle#92;mathbb#123;Z#125;).
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.
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.
gloss: A fractal element.
pos: noun
gloss: A file containing a music sequence that can be played in a tracker.
pos: noun
examples: I composed a number of techno and rave modules back in the 1990s.
gloss: A contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel.
pos: noun
gloss: An independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft.
pos: noun
Related words: mode
model
moderate
modulus
Derived words: 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
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