module

名词 n.
/ˈmɑd͡ʒul/|/ˈmɔd͡ʒʉːl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.
  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).
  4. A unit of education covering a single topic.
    — Which modules are you studying next year?
  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. 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;).
  7. A fractal element.
  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. A contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel.
  10. An independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft.

词形变化

modules plural

词源

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.
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