mod
1 (mŏd)
[After the Mods, name of several gangs of English youths in the 1960s, short for modern.]
noun
- An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s.
adjective
- In or characteristic of this unconventionally modern style.
- Fashionably up-to-date, especially in style, design, or dress.
mod2
abbreviation
Mathematics- modulus
mod·u·lus
(mŏj́ə-ləs)
[Latin diminutive of modus, measure.]
noun: pl., -li (-lī́)
- Physics A quantity that expresses the degree to which a substance possesses a property, such as elasticity.
- Mathematics The absolute value of a complex number.
- A number by which two given numbers can be divided and produce the same remainder.
- The number by which a logarithm in one system must be multiplied to obtain the corresponding logarithm in another system.