Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or based on a module or modulus.
- adjective Designed with standardized units or dimensions, as for easy assembly and repair or flexible arrangement and use.
- adjective Of or relating to fields having a characteristic greater than zero.
- adjective Of or relating to structured equivalence classes.
- adjective Biology Relating to, exhibiting, or being a pattern of growth in which similar morphological units, called modules, are added repeatedly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to modulation; pertaining to or regulated by a module or a modulus.
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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of separate
modules ; especially where each module performs or fulfills some specified function and could be replaced by a similar module for the same function, independently of the other modules. - adjective Of or relating to a
module or modules.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective constructed with standardized units or dimensions allowing flexibility and variety in use
Etymologies
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Examples
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Surely the term modular just means that self contained modules are used, with common modules used for different systems or platforms.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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The other was what they called a modular home and Nora a prefab, a frame bungalow standing on a bluff between the dirt road and the ridge.
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000
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So that maintenance can be done, substations are built with switching functions that allow you to disconnect and reconnect various parts of the system in modular sort of way.
Boing Boing 2009
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Plug-in modular seating system by Stefano Getzel » CONTEMPORIST
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In Montserrat, its members lived in modular tents and frequently worked in 38degree heat.
Why Your Children Should Enlist in the Canadian Armed Forces 1990
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Cairngorm 3 reference architecture (currently in draft) is to separate applications into distinct functional areas that can be developed independently; in other words a modular architecture, where each functional area is a module.
Adobe Blogs Tom Sugden 2009
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Initially Williams toyed with the idea of modular scaffolds fitted permanently with pneumatic drills.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Initially Williams toyed with the idea of modular scaffolds fitted permanently with pneumatic drills.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Further up the security chain, companies like Phoenix-based i/o Data Centers are offering so-called modular data centers.
WikiLeaks Clouds IT Outsourcing Rolfe Winkler 2010
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One of the mathematical theories that Gauss developed was a system of arithmetic called modular arithmetic, or, as we call it in our lab, mod math.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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