- a unit that can form part of a course of study, especially at a college or university in the UK
- The course consists of ten core modules and five optional modules.
Extra ExamplesTopics Educationb2- Participants who complete 10 online modules will receive their certificates in June.
- The course material is divided into four modules.
- Each student takes five modules.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- individual
- compulsory
- optional
- …
- do
- study
- complete
- …
- (computing) a unit of a computer system or program that has a particular function
- You can buy memory modules to increase storage capacity.
- New software modules include a virtual memory tool.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- command
- lunar
- memory
- …
- add
- configure
- install
- …
- one of a set of separate parts or units that can be joined together to make a machine, a piece of furniture, a building, etc.
- Ships are now built in modules rather than built in a whole from the base up.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- command
- lunar
- memory
- …
- add
- configure
- install
- …
- a unit of a spacecraft that can function independently of the main part
- Photographs were taken from a lunar module
- the tiny command module of the spaceship
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- command
- lunar
- memory
- …
- add
- configure
- install
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the senses ‘allotted scale’ and ‘plan, model’): from French, or from Latin modulus ‘measure’, diminutive of modus. Current senses date from the 1950s.
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