module

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.

A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building.

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).

When there is more than one protected module in memory, the rules for accessing the code and data sections of a given module treat all the other modules as if they were unprotected memory.

A unit of education covering a single topic.

Which modules are you studying next year?

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.”