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a self-contained brick that lets you build cathedrals without understanding the whole blueprint.
means A self-contained unit designed to be combined with others to build a larger system, whether in software, hardware, furniture, or coursework.
from From Latin 'modulus,' a diminutive of 'modus' (measure, manner) — literally 'a little measure.' It entered architecture first, naming a standard unit of proportion used to keep a building's parts in harmony, before the 20th century lent it to engineering, computing, and spacecraft, where it came to mean any standardized, swappable component.
- space origin
- Apollo's lunar module landed two men on the Moon
- latin root
- from modulus, meaning a small measure
- reuse king
- write once, import everywhere, debug in one place
- furniture too
- modular shelving snaps together like adult Lego
- college sense
- a self-paced chunk of a larger course