1798, as a term in mathematics, from French modulaire or directly from Modern Latin modularis, from Latin modulus "a small measure" (see module). Meaning "composed of interchangeable units" first recorded 1936.
双语例句
1. They ended up buying a prebuilt modular home on a two-acre lot.
最后他们购买了一幢建在两英亩土地上的预制组合式房屋。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The course is modular in structure.
该课程在结构上以单元划分。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The earliest automorphic functions to be studied were the elliptic modular functions.
研究得最早的自导函数是椭圆模函数.
来自辞典例句
4. The modular growth of a system.
一个系统的模块式地增长.
来自辞典例句
5. This programmer is designed on a modular basis.