module
Modular shelving can be configured for anything from a desktop computer to a whole data centre.
The modular design allows for the building to eventually accommodate 600 students
Maria recently began a modular degree course.
UK The introduction in 1992 of new-style modular maths A-levels, involving regular assessment, had led to students being asked shorter, less demanding questions.

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bifurcation
biomarker
branch
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element
modularly
module
moiety
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multi-component
multi-element
panel
piece
sub-sector
subcomponent
subpart
subscale
subscience

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modular | American Dictionary

modular
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈmɑdʒ·ə·lər/
made from a set of separate parts that can be joined together to form a larger object:
modular homes
modular classrooms

modular | Business English

modular
adjective
uk /ˈmɒdjʊlər/ us /ˈmɑdʒələr/
made of several parts that can be put together in different ways:
modular furniture/software/systemA modular system allows six different configurations of just two key components.
modular architecture/design
PRODUCTION
used to describe a method of manufacturing in which the process is separated into parts that can be done in a different order or in different places:
modular manufacturing/productionHe wants to integrate modular manufacturing into the entire company to produce products such as clocks for cars.

Examples of modular

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As a result these packages lack features such as modular design and hierarchical analysis specific to robot systems.
In our approach, the modularity is not only a useful feature of the whole system, but a desired possibility of high-level modular instrument making.
The key elements of mass production are standardised products made of interchangeable or modular parts, a mass market, and other related economies of scale.
Views on software engineering and development has dramatically changed over the last decade, taking a modular view on complex software systems.
Let us insist that special loci, which are the fixed-point sets of the action of the modular group are simultaneously algebraic, arithmetic and totally geodesic.
The modular approach to building event systems has many evident advantages.
Constraining metrical theory : a modular theory of rhythm and destressing.
Barnes emphasises a modular architecture, in which the application of phonological rules does not have access to online or real-time phonetic information.
In the modular language construction example presented above, however, we have relied heavily on the use of classes.
The rational curve (4.2) can serve as a prototype for constructing higher-dimensional rational eigenloci attached to any finite-order element of the modular group.
We have designed unified modular structures for the sub-controllers and controller processes, and constructed the system as a distributed realtime processing system.
Concerted evolution and developmental integration in modular butterfly wing patterns.
Peripheral dyslexias, which have been less widely explored with respect to developmental origin, also show modular impairments in developmental forms.
The essence of the contextual modular view is that regularities appropriate to certain contexts are stored together, and are accessible together.
As a result, the assembly errors of a modular robot are usually larger than those of a robot having fixed configuration.
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