1580s, "allotted measure," from Middle French module (1540s) or directly from Latin modulus "small measure," diminutive of modus "measure, manner" (see mode (n.1)). Meaning "interchangeable part" first recorded 1955; that of "separate section of a spacecraft" is from 1961.
例文
1. They have docked a robot module alongside the orbiting space station.
彼らはすでに自動操作室を軌道に沿って運行する宇宙ステーションと並行してドッキングしている。
2.He has 250 students in his microeconomics module .
彼のミクロ経済学授業ユニットには250人の学生がいる。/
3.While one of the astronauts went round the moon in the command module 、the other went down to the surface in the lunar module .宇宙飛行士の1人が指揮官室を回って月を飛行している間、もう1人の宇宙飛行士は月面に着陸した。
4.A rescue plan could be achieved by sending an unmanned module to the space station.