module

noun

1. 1

   A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components.

   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.

2. 2

   A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.

3. 3

   A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.

   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.

4. 4

   A unit of education covering a single topic.

   Which modules are you studying next year?

5. 5

   A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for a role-playing game.

   Dragonborn […] first appeared in the Dragons of Despair module (1984) for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as “dragonmen.”

6. 6

   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.

   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.

7. 7

   A fractal element.

8. 8

   A file containing a music sequence that can be played in a tracker.

   I composed a number of techno and rave modules back in the 1990s.

9. 9

   A contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel.

10. 10

    An independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft.

Forms

plural

modules