Borrowed fromFrenchmodule, fromLatinmodulus(“a small measure, a measure, mode, meter”), diminutive ofmodus(“measure”) (whencemode).Doublet ofmodulus andmold.
module (pluralmodules)
- Aself-containedcomponent of asystem, ofteninterchangeable, which has awell-definedinterface to the other components.
2025 February 11, Joshua Stylman, “How to Forge the Spectator Class”, inBrownstone Journal[1]: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 entiremodules.” What was once a craft that any dedicated person could learn has become an exercise in supervised dependency.
- (architecture) Astandardunit of measure used for determining theproportions of abuilding.
- (programming) Asection of aprogram; asubroutine or group of subroutines.
2001, Phil Jones,Visual Basic: A Complete Course, page254:Classmodules are similar to formmodules except they do not have a visible interface (GUI).
2013, Helmut Reimer, Norbert Pohlmann, Wolfgang Schneider,ISSE 2013 Securing Electronic Business Processes, page244:When there is more than one protectedmodule in memory, the rules for accessing the code and data sections of a givenmodule treat all the othermodules as if they were unprotected memory.
- Aunit ofeducation covering a singletopic.
Whichmodules are you studying next year?
- A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for arole-playing game.
2011, Michael J. Tresca,The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games, page81:Dragonborn[…] first appeared in the Dragons of Despairmodule (1984) for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as “dragonmen.”
- (algebra, ring theory) Anabelian group equipped with the operation of multiplication by an element of aring (or another of certain algebraic objects), representing a generalisation of the concept ofvector space withscalar multiplication.
- Meronym:element
1974, Thomas W. Hungerford,Algebra, Springer,page168:
2004, Robert R. Colby, Kent R. Fuller,Equivalence and Duality forModule Categories (with Tilting and Cotilting for Rings),Cambridge University Press,page vii:Approximately forty-five years ago K. Morita presented the first major results on equivalences and dualities between categories ofmodules over a pair of rings.
2012, A. A. Kirillov,Elements of the Theory of Representations,Springer,page29:One defines in like mannerrightK-modules andtwo-sidedK-modules. IfK is commutative, then every leftK-module is automatically equipped with the structure of right and a two-sidedK-module.
- (fractal geometry, mathematics) Afractal element.
- (music, computing) A file containing amusic sequence that can be played in atracker (also calledmod ormusic module).
- (hydraulics) Acontrivance for regulating the supply of water from anirrigationchannel.
- (astronautics) An independent self-contained unit of aspacecraft.
- (abelian group equipped with multiplication by an element of a ring):
self-contained component of a system
architecture: standard unit of measure for determining the proportions of a building
pre-prepared adventure scenario for a role-playing game
type of algebraic structure, generalization of vector spaces over non-field rings
file containing a music sequence
hydraulics: contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel
astronautics: independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft
Translations to be checked
- “module”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “module”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
Module in theEncyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Borrowed fromFrenchmodule.Doublet ofmodulus andmal.
module m (pluralmodulenormodules,nodiminutive)
- module
Borrowed fromLatinmodulus.Doublet ofmoule.
module m (pluralmodules)
- module
module
- inflection ofmodular:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
module
- vocativesingular ofmodulus
- IPA(key): /mɔˈdu.lɛ/
- Rhymes:-ulɛ
- Syllabification:mo‧du‧le
module
- locative/vocativesingular ofmoduł
module
- inflection ofmodular:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
- IPA(key): /moˈdu.le/
- Rhymes:-ule
- Hyphenation:mo‧du‧le
module n pl
- indefiniteplural ofmodul(“module”)
module n
- vocativesingular ofmod(“mode”)
module
- inflection ofmodular:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
Module in theEncyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)