module
/ˈmɑd͡ʒul/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components.
noun
A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.
noun
A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.
noun
A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for a role-playing game.
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Which modules are you studying next year?"
- "Dragonborn […] first appeared in the Dragons of Despair module (1984) for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as “dragonmen.”"
- "Modules over a ring are a generalization of abelian groups (which are modules over #92;textstyle#92;mathbb#123;Z#125;)."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmɑd͡ʒul/