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Module [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A model or representation.

2. In architecture, a certain measure or size taken at pleasure for regulating the proportion of columns, and the symmetry or disposition of the whole building. The usual module of a column is its semidiameter at the base. This is divided into parts or minutes.

Module [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To model; to shape; to modulate. [Little used.]

Module [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A model or measure.

2. The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection.

3. To model; also, to modulate.