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Modular

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈmɑːdʒələr/adjectiveCommon term

In software engineering, modular means: Built from separate, independent parts with clear boundaries, so each part can be understood, tested, changed or replaced without touching the others.

In Turkish: modüler, parçalı yapıda

How it is used

A positive word in design discussions: 'a modular architecture', 'make the code more modular'. Each part is called a module. Modular code is easier to reuse and to divide among several teams.

Example sentences

  1. The plugin system is modular, so customers can turn features on and off.

  2. Let's make the reporting code more modular before the second team starts working on it.

Common collocations

  • modular design
  • modular architecture
  • more modular
  • modular monolith
  • separation of concernsA design principle saying that each part of a program should handle one clear job, such as showing data, applying business rules or storing data, without mixing them.
  • loose couplingA design in which the parts of a system depend on each other as little as possible, so a change in one part rarely forces changes in the others.
  • maintainableEasy to understand, fix and extend over a long time, even by developers who did not write the original code.
  • monolithAn application built and deployed as one single unit, where all features share the same codebase and usually the same database.

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