Word of the Day:
module
What It Means
A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components.
A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.
A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.
I composed a number of techno and rave modules back in the 1990s.
Module in Context
“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...”
Did You Know?
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.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: module (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.
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