module

Definition

  • noun: one of a set of parts that can be connected or combined to build or complete something
  • noun: a standard or unit of measurement
  • synonyms: earth insertion, lem, lm

Examples

  • ('chiefly Brit') This is a modular course of three components, and students can take those three 'modules' in any order.

  • factories that build engines, transmissions, brakes, and other 'modules' for cars

  • the spacecraft's 'command module' [=the main part of a spacecraft]

Movie quotes

  • (..) The information and then decides what to do with it based on his emotional and cognitive abilities. Then the brain relates this to the AI module. And... Yeah, like a year later. Computers finish the job, a brain... You wanted a man inside a machine! That's what you've got, but the human (..)
    2014 RoboCop