absolute value
-1000 or -1000 000 can be described as negative numbers with a large modulus.
Some results about modulus can be illustrated by the distance between points on a number line.
So the modulus of a complex number is just a generalisation of the modulus you have used previously.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Numbering & counting
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absolute value
accession number
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count
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hex
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tot
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undercount
unduplicated

Examples of modulus

modulus
The pressure elastic modulus of the pulmonary trunk was abnormally high (>120) in most (13114) patients even relatively early after the operation.
In patients without pulmonary stenosis, the systolic pulmonary arterial pressure increased concomitantly with the pressure elastic modulus.
This is true even though the moduli spaces involved could be very complicated: non-reduced and not equidimensional.
Subjects first judged the modulus item and then all the items in the training set.
The sum of these errors shows that they are nearly equal in modulus.
The construction works in exactly the same way for the two moduli spaces.
This class of foliations admits the same properties as generalized curves and provides an efficient description of local formal moduli spaces.
Subjects first judged the modulus item, which was the same for all subjects and remained on the screen all the time.
The dynamic response of the biofilms was characterized in terms of the shear storage and loss moduli and complex viscosity.
The static and dynamic responses were defined in terms of the creep compliance, storage and loss moduli, and viscosity.
However, there are two classes of moduli spaces where the methods of differential geometry are equally powerful.
Recall that a zone is characterized up to conformal transformation by one number, which we call the modulus.
We derive an integral equation in terms of the velocity modulus and angle at the free surface, determined by the dynamic boundary condition.
Moreover, - has only finitely many eigenvalues of modulus 1; they are all simple.
Give a lower bound for the modulus of a non-splittable link.
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