Modulus

Modulus is the diminutive from the Latin word modus meaning measure or manner. It may refer to:

Modulus (gastropod) a genus of small sea snails
Modulus (algebraic number theory), a formal product of places of a number field
The absolute value of a real or complex number ( |a | )
Modular arithmetic, the modulus being the value at which numbers "wrap around"
Similarly, the modulus of a Dirichlet character
Modulus of continuity, a function gauging the uniform continuity of a function
Elastic modulus, a measure of stiffness
Young's modulus, a specific elastic modulus
Conformal modulus, a measure of the size of a curve family
The modular function in the theory of Haar measure, often called simply the modulus
Modulus Guitars, musical instrument manufacturer
Modulus robot, a household robot
The modulo operator (%, mod, etc.) of various programming languages
The measurement of standard pitch in the teeth of a rotating gear

Moduli, the plural form may refer to:

Moduli (physics), scalar fields for which the potential energy function has continuous families of global minima
Moduli space, in mathematics a geometric space whose points represent algebro-geometric objects

See also