modulus

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Physics A quantity that expresses the degree to which a substance possesses a property, such as elasticity.
2. n. Mathematics The absolute value of a complex number.
3. n. A number by which two given numbers can be divided and produce the same remainder.
4. n. The number by which a logarithm in one system must be multiplied to obtain the corresponding logarithm in another system.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In mathematics, a real positive number that serves as measure or parameter of a function or effect. Represented by M. or μ.
2. n. In physics, the measure of an effect under conditions whose measure is unity. Thus, a physical modulus is not a number, but a physical quantity.
3. n. [capitalized] In conchology, a genus of gastropods, referred to the Littorinidæ or periwinkles, or made type of family Modulidæ. The shell is depressed and trochiform, with a deeply cut columellar tooth and many-whorled operculum.
4. n. then the modulus of transformation is

Wiktionary

1. n. mathematics The base with respect to which a congruence is computed.
2. n. mathematics The absolute value of a complex number.
3. n. physics A coefficient that expresses how much of a certain property is possessed by a certain substance.
4. n. computing, programming An operator placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Math., Mech., & Physics) A quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc.; a parameter.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the absolute value of a complex number
2. n. (physics) a coefficient that expresses how much of a specified property is possessed by a specified substance
3. n. an integer that can be divided without remainder into the difference between two other integers