Meaning & use

Modularize

verb·Academic

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To design or organize something into separate, interchangeable modules or components.

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The engineers decided to modularize the software so individual features could be updated independently.

Modularizing the course content made it easier for students to study topics in any order.

A note on using this word

Common in software engineering and manufacturing, modularizing supports easier maintenance, testing, and reuse of individual parts.

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compartmentalizecomponentize

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