modular.

1. Made from separate units that can be combined, replaced, or rearranged.

2. Working with numbers according to the remainders left after division by a fixed number.

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Words that belong together

• a modular design
• modular components

On the page

The modular habitat expanded one sealed unit at a time.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, setting. Commonness: moderately common.