mod : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mod	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for mod
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mod adj relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs"; Synonym(s): mod, modern, modernistic n a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
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}. 2. Short for {modulo} but used _only_ for its techspeak sense.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
*MOD ("StarMOD") A {concurrent} language combining the {module}s of {Modula} and the communications of {Distributed Processes}. ["*MOD - A Language for Distributed Programming", R.P. Cook, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-6(6):563-571 (Nov 1980)]. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-21)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
mod 1. (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 computer}s 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://www.eskimo.com/~future/mods.htm)}. 2. 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. A common name for the {modulo} operator. (1999-07-14)