modulus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin modulus. Doublet of module and mold.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]modulus (plural moduli)
- (mathematics) The base with respect to which a congruence is computed.
- (mathematics) The absolute value of a complex number.
- (physics) A coefficient that expresses how much of a certain property is possessed by a certain substance.
- (physics) A scalar field controlling the shape and size of extra dimensions in a compactification.
- (computing, programming) An operator placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]base with respect to which a congruence is computed
absolute value of a complex number
coefficient that expresses how much of a certain property is possessed by a certain substance
Further reading
[edit]Modulus in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin modulus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]modulus m (plural moduli)
- (mathematics) modulus (absolute value of a complex number)
- (physics) modulus (coefficient)
Derived terms
[edit]Esperanto
[edit]Verb
[edit]modulus
- conditional of moduli
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin modulus (“measure, rhythm”), diminutive of modus (“measure; manner, way”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]modulus (plural modulusok)
Declension
[edit]Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | modulus | modulusok |
accusative | modulust | modulusokat |
dative | modulusnak | modulusoknak |
instrumental | modulussal | modulusokkal |
causal-final | modulusért | modulusokért |
translative | modulussá | modulusokká |
terminative | modulusig | modulusokig |
essive-formal | modulusként | modulusokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | modulusban | modulusokban |
superessive | moduluson | modulusokon |
adessive | modulusnál | modulusoknál |
illative | modulusba | modulusokba |
sublative | modulusra | modulusokra |
allative | modulushoz | modulusokhoz |
elative | modulusból | modulusokból |
delative | modulusról | modulusokról |
ablative | modulustól | modulusoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
modulusé | modulusoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
moduluséi | modulusokéi |
Possessive forms of modulus | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | modulusom | modulusaim |
2nd person sing. | modulusod | modulusaid |
3rd person sing. | modulusa | modulusai |
1st person plural | modulusunk | modulusaink |
2nd person plural | modulusotok | modulusaitok |
3rd person plural | modulusuk | modulusaik |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From modus (“measure; manner, way”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmo.du.lus/, [ˈmɔd̪ʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.du.lus/, [ˈmɔːd̪ulus]
Noun
[edit]modulus m (genitive modulī); second declension
- diminutive of modus (“measure, metre, mode; method”):
- a small measure or interval
- (architecture) a module
- (aqueducts) a water meter
- (music) a rhythmical measure, interval, rhythm, mode, time
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | modulus | modulī |
Genitive | modulī | modulōrum |
Dative | modulō | modulīs |
Accusative | modulum | modulōs |
Ablative | modulō | modulīs |
Vocative | module | modulī |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: modulus
- → Occitan: mòtle
- → Old Catalan: motle
- → Old French: modle, mole
- → Catalan: mòdul (learned), mòdol
- → French: module
- → Italian: modulo
- → Portuguese: módulo
- → Russian: мо́дуль (módulʹ)
- → Spanish: módulo
References
[edit]- “modulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “modulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- modulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- modulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “modulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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