modulus
Americannoun
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moduli
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Physics. a coefficient pertaining to a physical property.
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Mathematics.
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that number by which the logarithms in one system are multiplied to yield the logarithms in another.
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a quantity by which two given quantities can be divided to yield the same remainders.
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noun
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physics a coefficient expressing a specified property of a specified substance See bulk modulus modulus of rigidity Young's modulus
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maths the absolute value of a complex number See absolute value
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maths the number by which a logarithm to one base is multiplied to give the corresponding logarithm to another base
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maths an integer that can be divided exactly into the difference between two other integers See also congruence
7 is a modulus of 25 and 11
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moduli
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A number by which two given numbers can be divided and produce the same remainder.
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The numerical length of the vector that represents a complex number. For a complex number a + bi, the modulus is the square root of (a 2 + b 2).
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The number by which a logarithm to one base must be multiplied to obtain the corresponding logarithm to another base.
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The nanotubes also had an ultra-low elastic modulus of about 20-30 GPa.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2024
The current version features an improved layer just below the cover, a high-flex modulus resin.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 27, 2020
A disk between vertebrae in the spine is subjected to a shearing force of 600 N. Find its shear deformation, taking it to have the shear modulus of 1×109 N / m2 .
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Calculate the magnitude of the normal force exerted by the juice per square centimeter if its bulk modulus is 1.8×109 N/m2 , assuming the bottle does not break.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
It is not usual now to express Young's modulus of elasticity in terms of a length of the substance considered.
From Heroes of Science: Physicists by William Garnett
The experiments revealed that water had a significant effect, enhancing the energy dispersion and reducing the elastic moduli of the rocks across a wide range of frequencies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2023
Furthermore, if I trace out a path within the moduli space, that corresponds to a continuously varying family of our objects.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2023
Giving a map from one moduli space to another is like a rule for taking objects of one type and getting objects of a different—hopefully simpler—type.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 26, 2023
Lisanne Taams, a student at Radboud University in the Netherlands, is working on a Ph.D. about, in her words, “computing motives of moduli stacks of vector bundles on stacky curves.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
The songs of the Wandering Students were in a strict sense moduli as distinguished from versus; popular and not scholastic.
From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by John Addington Symonds
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