Dictionary
Thesaurus
Reference
Translate
Web
Related Searches
on Ask.com
Synonyms
Nearby Entries

mod

- 12 dictionary results

mod

1  [mod]
Use mod in a Sentence
–adjective
1. very modern; up-to-date; being in the vanguard in style, dress, etc.
2. (sometimes initial capital letter) of or pertaining to a style of dress of the 1960s, typified by miniskirts, bell-bottom trousers, boots, and bright colors and patterns.
–noun
3. a person who is in the vanguard in style, dress, etc.
4. (sometimes initial capital letter) a British teenager of the 1960s who affected a very neat, sophisticated appearance and wore fancy clothing inspired by Edwardian dress.
Origin:
1955–60; shortened form of modern

mod

2  [mod]
–noun Informal.
modification.
Origin:
by shortening

Mod

 
1. modal auxiliary.
2. modifier.

mod.

 
1. moderate.
2. Music. moderato.
3. modern.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source Link To mod
mod 1   (mŏd)   
n.  An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s.
adj.  
  1. In or characteristic of this unconventionally modern style.
  2. Fashionably up-to-date, especially in style, design, or dress.

[After the Mods, name of several gangs of English youths in the 1960s, short for modern.]
mod 2  
abbr.   Mathematics
modulus
mod·u·lus   (mŏj'ə-ləs)   
n.   pl. mod·u·li (-lī')
  1. Abbr. m or M Physics A quantity that expresses the degree to which a substance possesses a property, such as elasticity.
    1. Mathematics The absolute value of a complex number.
    2. Abbr. mod A number by which two given numbers can be divided and produce the same remainder.
    3. The number by which a logarithm in one system must be multiplied to obtain the corresponding logarithm in another system.

[Latin, diminutive of modus, measure; see med- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source

mod

vt.,n. [very common]
1. Short for `modify' or `modification'. Very commonly used -- in fact the full terms are considered markers that one is being formal. The plural `mods' is used esp. with reference to bug fixes or minor design changes in hardware or software, most esp. with respect to patch sets or a diff.
2. Short for modulo but used _only_ for its techspeak sense.
Jargon File 4.2.0
Cite This Source
Language Translation for : mod
Spanish: sobre, respecto a,
German: gegen,
Japanese: ～と対照して
More Translations »

mod 
"tidy, sophisticated teen" (usually contrasted with rocker), 1960, slang shortening of modern.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source

mod
1. (module) The filename extension for a sampled music file format that originated on the Commodore Amiga. A .MOD file is composed of digitised sound samples, arranged in patterns to create a song. There are .MOD players for most personal computers including Amiga, Archimedes, IBM PC, and Macintosh.
An IBM PC will require a sound card capable of handling digitised samples (Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, GUS) and slower Intel 80386-based PCs may not be able to do anything else while playing a module.
.MOD files differ from .MID (MIDI) files in that they contain sound samples. This allows each song to use different sounds but it also puts more load on the CPU than playing a MIDI file, since more data must be processed for each note. A slow CPU would benefit from a sound card with wavetable synthesis which handles samples instead of the CPU.
Module files come in various formats including .MOD. Formats evolved from .MOD include .S3M, .FAR and .669. Most contain improvements on .MODs.
(http://eskimo.com/~future/mods.htm).
2. modify or modification.
This abbreviation is very common - in fact the full terms are considered formal. "Mods" is used especially with reference to bug fixes or minor design changes in hardware or software, most especially with respect to patch sets or a diff.
3. A common name for the modulo operator.
(1999-07-14)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
Cite This Source
mod
modern
MOD
mesiodistocclusal
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source
Search another word or see mod on Thesaurus | Reference
>