element vs module

element

noun
  • One of the entries of a matrix. 

  • A small part of the whole. 

  • A required aspect or component of a cause of action. A deed is regarded as a violation of law only if each element can be proved. 

  • Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains. 

  • Any one of the simplest chemical substances that cannot be decomposed in a chemical reaction or by any chemical means and made up of atoms all having the same number of protons. 

  • An orbital element; one of the parameters needed to uniquely specify a particular orbit. 

  • One of the four basic building blocks of matter in theories of ancient philosophers and alchemists: water, earth, fire, and air. 

  • A basic, simple substance out of which something is made, raw material. 

  • The basic principles of a field of knowledge, basics, fundamentals, rudiments. 

  • One of the objects in a set. 

  • One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 

  • A small but present amount of a quality, a hint. 

  • A group of people within a larger group having a particular common characteristic. 

  • One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags. 

  • A factor, one of the conditions contributing to a result. 

  • Any of the teeth of a zip fastener. 

  • A component in electrical equipment, often in the form of a coil, having a high resistance, thereby generating heat when a current is passed through it. 

  • An infinitesimal interval of a quantity, a differential. 

  • The bread and wine taken at Holy Communion. 

  • A place or state of being that an individual or object is best suited to. 

module

noun
  • A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines. 

  • A pre-prepared adventure scenario with related materials for a role-playing game. 

  • A contrivance for regulating the supply of water from an irrigation channel. 

  • An independent self-contained unit of a spacecraft. 

  • A unit of education covering a single topic. 

  • An abelian group equipped with the operation of multiplication by an element of a ring (or another of certain algebraic objects), representing a generalisation of the concept of vector space with scalar multiplication. 

  • A fractal element. 

  • A self-contained component of a system, often interchangeable, which has a well-defined interface to the other components. 

  • A file containing a music sequence that can be played in a tracker (called also mod or music module). 

  • A standard unit of measure used for determining the proportions of a building. 

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