Mod vs Modulo - What's the difference?
mod | modulo |
(uncountable) An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
(UK) a 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.
(slang) A modification to an object, computer game, etc., typically for the purpose of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.
(Internet) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
(computing, informal) A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
* 1992 , "Jordan K. Hubbard", How to convert Amiga mods to Arch?'' (on Internet newsgroup ''comp.sys.acorn )
* 2003 , Rene T. A. Lysloff, Leslie C. Gay, Jr., Music and Technoculture (page 38)
(rock climbing) A moderately difficult route.
Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
(slang) To modify an object from its original condition, typically for the purposes of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.
To moderate; to punish a rule-breaking user on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.
(mathematics) Given a specified modulus of.
(jargon, or, colloquial) Except for differences accounted for by.
* 1990 , Margaret Speas, Phrase Structure in Natural Language , p. 281:
* 2002 , Richard Arneson, "
(en) (extended use) With due allowance for (a specified exception or particular detail).
(computing) the operation or function that returns the remainder of one number divided by another
As an initialism mod
is (uk) (ministry of defence).As a verb modulo is
.mod
English
(wikipedia mod)Synonyms
* (modulus) , modulusNoun
(en noun)- I'd like to convert some of the arch(SIC) mods back into Amiga mods since I don't have the original Amiga versions.
- These mods , while usually having the distinctive bleep and beep quality of transistor-generated tones, are often astonishingly creative and rich in expressive nuances.
Usage notes
In gaming, mods are created by end users whereas such content by the game creators would be labeled an expansion pack.Verb
(modd)- His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his .
- Don't break the rules or you'll be modded .
Synonyms
* trick, trick out * (to moderate)Derived terms
* moddable * modderAnagrams
* English 4chan slang ----modulo
English
(wikipedia modulo)Preposition
(English prepositions)- 21 and 84 are congruent to each other modulo 9, since both numbers leave the same remainder, 3, when divided by 9.
- Thus 21 modulo 9 is 3, because when 21 is divided by 9, the remainder is 3.
- "A is the same as B modulo C" means A is the same as B except for differences accounted for by C.
- Thus, the underlying structure which I would assign to Navajo will be identical, modulo word order, to the one that we found to be projected in all of the languages studied in chapter 3.
Egalitarianism", in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy :
- Moreover, in the role of consumer, each individual (modulo his location) faces the same array of goods and services on sale to anyone who can pay the purchase price[.]
- The "tail recursion modulo cons" technique allows functions that would be tail recursive but for a cons call to be transformed into a tail recursive form.
- All mammals, modulo the monotremes, give birth to live young.