plural of lunar module

(astronautics) The spacecraft used in the Apollo missions that was designed for the landing on the surface of the Moon; the lunar excursion module.

(software, design) A structural design pattern to implement the concept of software modules (modular programming) in a programming language that lacks support for them.

plural of module pattern

(algebra) The monoid action of a ring R on an abelian group.

(mathematics) A representation of a Clifford algebra.

plural of Clifford module

(algebra) A module that has a basis. Equivalently, a module consisting of n-tuples of ring elements with no extra identities. (Then the number n is said to be its rank.) Equivalently, a direct sum whose summands are all the same ring. (The quantity of summands may be more than two.)

(algebra) A module which is a direct summand of a free module.

(algebra) A module whose every submodule is finitely generated; or equivalently, a module whose submodules satisfy an ascending chain condition (i.e., any ascending chain of submodules levels off after a finite number of steps).