mod
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
mod
adj 1: relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their
offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in
modernistic designs"; [syn: {mod}, {modern},
{modernistic}]
n 1: a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for
their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers
from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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}. See also {case mod}.
2. Short for {modulo} but used only for its techspeak sense.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
mod
1. <filename extension, application, file format, music>
(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. <jargon> 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. <programming> A common name for the {modulo} operator.
(1999-07-14)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "mod":
a la mode, advanced, all the rage, all the thing, avant-garde,
contemporary, current, far out, fashionable, forward-looking, hip,
in, in fashion, in style, in vogue, modern, modernistic,
modernized, modish, new, newfashioned, now, popular, present-day,
present-time, prevalent, progressive, smart, streamlined, trendy,
twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date,
up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, way out
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