Modular
adjective
Made up of separate parts that can be put together, replaced, or used individually.
The new office building is modular so they can add more rooms as the company grows.
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- modular design
- modular approach
adjective
In mathematics, relating to a system by which one number can be used to replace another without changing the value of any calculation.
Modular arithmetic is a fundamental concept in number theory.
Often appears as...
- modular function
- modular form
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Technical
adjective
In computing, describing a system made up of separate components that can function independently.
The software is modular, making it easy to add new functionality.
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- modular program
- modular architecture
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Technical
adjective
Made up of separate parts that can be put together, replaced, or used individually.
The new office building is modular so they can add more rooms as the company grows.
Often appears as...
- modular design
- modular approach
adjective
In mathematics, relating to a system by which one number can be used to replace another without changing the value of any calculation.
Modular arithmetic is a fundamental concept in number theory.
Often appears as...
- modular function
- modular form
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
In computing, describing a system made up of separate components that can function independently.
The software is modular, making it easy to add new functionality.
Often appears as...
- modular program
- modular architecture
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Flexibility Benefits
Modular objects offer flexibility, as parts can be rearranged or replaced depending on needs.
Our kitchen's modular shelving allows us to easily change its layout.
Pro Tip 2/3Customization
'Modular' implies you can customize components for personal or specific use.
I prefer modular furniture because I can configure it to fit my space.
Pro Tip 3/3Growth Adaptation
Modular systems are ideal for growing businesses or evolving projects.
They chose a modular platform to easily scale their operations later.
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it's very strong but very easily manipulated. It's modular in its nature. Clothing design as it stands today is very rarely modular. Take this motorcycle jacket as an example. It's a pretty standard jacket with its buttons, zippers and trim. But in order for us to efficiently recycle a jacket like this, we need to be able to easily remove these items
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in terms of the number of different scientific advances that it's going to catalyze. The thing that's special about it is this modular targeting system. I mean, we've been shoving DNA into organisms for years, right? But because of the modular targeting system, we can actually put it exactly where we want it.
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Nina Tandon: Could...
on a chip. Generating tissues of predictable density and behavior is the second piece, and will be really key towards getting these models to be adopted for drug discovery. And this is a schematic of a bioreactor we're developing in our lab to help engineer tissues in a more modular, scalable way.
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How bees help plants...
that gets pollinated by other species in times when you're not around to help. Finally, in addition to nestedness, the networks are usually modular. This means that the species in a network are compartmentalized into modules of plants and animals that interact more with each other
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In all of us, it turns out we are born with everything wired to everything else. So, every brain region is wired to every other region, and these are trimmed down to create the characteristic modular architecture of the adult brain. So, if there's a gene causing this trimming
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and I'm trying to help back that. Nathan Myhrvold and I actually are backing a company that, perhaps surprisingly, is actually taking the nuclear approach. There are some innovations in modular, liquid. Innovation really stopped in this industry quite some ago,
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Why modern renewable...
solar power is scaling up faster than cellphones for six years running half the world's editions of electric generating capacity have been renewable and the fastest-growing parts have been the modular mass-produced renewables
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Taylor Wilson: My...
or is there something left to innovate here? And I realized that I had hit upon something that I think has this huge potential to change the world. And this is what it is. This is a small modular reactor.
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Marcin Jakubowski:...
just didn't exist yet. I needed tools that were robust, modular, highly efficient and optimized, low-cost, made from local and recycled materials that would last a lifetime, not designed for obsolescence.
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Constructing the...
building anything this big is not for the faint of heart thanks to its modular outrigger truss design workers are building the world financial center at a rate of one floor every three days
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3 creative ways to fix...
it's very strong but very easily manipulated. It's modular in its nature. Clothing design as it stands today is very rarely modular. Take this motorcycle jacket as an example. It's a pretty standard jacket with its buttons, zippers and trim. But in order for us to efficiently recycle a jacket like this, we need to be able to easily remove these items
Video examples
What you need to know...
in terms of the number of different scientific advances that it's going to catalyze. The thing that's special about it is this modular targeting system. I mean, we've been shoving DNA into organisms for years, right? But because of the modular targeting system, we can actually put it exactly where we want it.
Video examples
Nina Tandon: Could...
on a chip. Generating tissues of predictable density and behavior is the second piece, and will be really key towards getting these models to be adopted for drug discovery. And this is a schematic of a bioreactor we're developing in our lab to help engineer tissues in a more modular, scalable way.
Video examples
How bees help plants...
that gets pollinated by other species in times when you're not around to help. Finally, in addition to nestedness, the networks are usually modular. This means that the species in a network are compartmentalized into modules of plants and animals that interact more with each other
Video examples
3 clues to understanding...
In all of us, it turns out we are born with everything wired to everything else. So, every brain region is wired to every other region, and these are trimmed down to create the characteristic modular architecture of the adult brain. So, if there's a gene causing this trimming
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Innovating to zero! PIPE...
and I'm trying to help back that. Nathan Myhrvold and I actually are backing a company that, perhaps surprisingly, is actually taking the nuclear approach. There are some innovations in modular, liquid. Innovation really stopped in this industry quite some ago,
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Why modern renewable...
solar power is scaling up faster than cellphones for six years running half the world's editions of electric generating capacity have been renewable and the fastest-growing parts have been the modular mass-produced renewables
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Taylor Wilson: My...
or is there something left to innovate here? And I realized that I had hit upon something that I think has this huge potential to change the world. And this is what it is. This is a small modular reactor.
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Marcin Jakubowski:...
just didn't exist yet. I needed tools that were robust, modular, highly efficient and optimized, low-cost, made from local and recycled materials that would last a lifetime, not designed for obsolescence.
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Constructing the...
building anything this big is not for the faint of heart thanks to its modular outrigger truss design workers are building the world financial center at a rate of one floor every three days
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Ratan Tata
Indian Businessman
Since I got involved in Telco, we first developed the first modular truck, the 407, then the 709, and now the 2213. These trucks broke away from the old face of Telco trucks. I was also just as much involved with the Safari, but nobody talks about the Safari. My involvement has been there with all Telco's projects -somehow the car has got hyped up.
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Clayton M. Christensen
American Author
The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple.
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Dana Spiotta
American Author
I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.
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Noah Hawley
American Producer
The great thing about making an ensemble show is it becomes modular. It might work on the page to cut from one scene to another, but on the screen, it's more powerful to take that second scene and move it first or move it later.
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Nick Woodman
American Businessman
I think that that's something that's pretty interesting about a GoPro - it's the one camera that we know of that you can combine with like cameras to form new cameras. So it's a bit of a modular system.
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Valentina Tereshkova
Russian Astronaut
I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
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Ratan Tata
Indian Businessman
Since I got involved in Telco, we first developed the first modular truck, the 407, then the 709, and now the 2213. These trucks broke away from the old face of Telco trucks. I was also just as much involved with the Safari, but nobody talks about the Safari. My involvement has been there with all Telco's projects -somehow the car has got hyped up.
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Clayton M. Christensen
American Author
The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple.
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Dana Spiotta
American Author
I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.
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Noah Hawley
American Producer
The great thing about making an ensemble show is it becomes modular. It might work on the page to cut from one scene to another, but on the screen, it's more powerful to take that second scene and move it first or move it later.
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Nick Woodman
American Businessman
I think that that's something that's pretty interesting about a GoPro - it's the one camera that we know of that you can combine with like cameras to form new cameras. So it's a bit of a modular system.
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Valentina Tereshkova
Russian Astronaut
I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
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