modulusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from French module as Latin modulus. Doublet of module and mold.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɒdjʊləs/, /-dʒʊ-/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɑdʒələs/
• 韻: -ɒdjʊləs, -ɒdʒələs

名詞

modulus (plural moduli)

1. (mathematics) The base with respect to which a congruence is computed.
2. (mathematics) The absolute value of a complex number.
3. (physics) A coefficient that expresses how much of a certain property is possessed by a certain substance.
4. (physics) A scalar field controlling the shape and size of extra dimensions in a compactification.
5. (computing, programming) An operator placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.

同意語

• (programming): mod, %

派生語

Further reading

• Modulus in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmɔ.dʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɔː.du.lus]

名詞

modulus m (genitive modulī); second declension

1. diminutive of modus (“measure, metre, mode; method”):
   1. a small measure or interval
   2. (architecture) a module
   3. (aqueducts) a water meter
   4. (music) a rhythmical measure, interval, rhythm, mode, time

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生語

• modulātē
• modulātiō
• modulātor
• modulātus
• modulor

関連する語

• modus

派生した語

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *modellus
  • Italian: modello (see there for further descendants)
  • Venetan: modèl
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: mòdul, mòdol
  • → English: modulus
  • → French: module
    • → Dutch: module, moduul
      • → Indonesian: modul
    • → English: module
    • → Romanian: modul
    • → Turkish: modül
  • → German: Model
  • → Italian: modulo
  • → Occitan: mòtle
  • → Old Catalan: motle
    • Catalan: motlle
    • → Spanish: molde
      • • → Portuguese: molde
  • → Old French: modle, mole
    • French: moule
    • → Middle English: molde, moolde, moulde
      • English: mold, mould
      • Scots: muild
  • → Polish: moduł
  • → Portuguese: módulo
  • → Russian: мо́дуль (módulʹ)
  • → Spanish: módulo

参照

• “modulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “modulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "modulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “modulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “modulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin