Usually means: Remainder from division of numbers.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. modulus: Merriam-Webster
  2. modulus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. modulus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. modulus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. modulus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Modulus, modulus: Wordnik
  7. modulus: Wiktionary
  8. modulus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. modulus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. modulus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. modulus: Dictionary.com
  12. Modulus (algebraic number theory), Modulus (disambiguation), Modulus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Modulus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. modulus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. modulus: Rhymezone
  16. Modulus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. modulus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. modulus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. modulus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. modulus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. modulus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. modulus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. modulus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MODULUS: Acronym Finder

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Modulus: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Modulus: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. modulus, modulus, modulus: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See moduli as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (modulus)

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

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