Absolute values of complex numbers

• Word before "spaces," in geometry

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n. an integer that can be divided without remainder into the difference between two other integers; "2 is a modulus of 5 and 9" the absolute value of a complex number (physics) a coefficient that expresses how much of a specified property is possessed by ...

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n. (plural of modulus English)

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In quantum field theory , the term moduli (or more properly moduli fields ) is sometimes used to refer to scalar fields whose potential energy function has continuous families of global minima. Such potential functions frequently occur in supersymmetric ...

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Modulus \Mod"u*lus\, n.; pl. Moduli . [L., a small measure. See Module , n.] (Math., Mech., & Physics) A quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, ...