▪ I. mod, n.2 and v.
(mɒd)
Colloq. abbrev. of modification and occas. abbrev. of modify v.
| 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson Piece of Cake 43 Has this Wimpey got the new escape gear mod? 1958 ‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose i. 17 Captain Pascoe had it modded, special. 1967 Autocar 5 Oct. 24/1 This Healey had all the works racing mods which brought the engine power up to 210 b.h.p. 1967 New Scientist 14 Dec. 654/2 If the ‘mods’ are minor, the production line could absorb them without much interruption. 1974 Publishers' Weekly 12 Aug. 54/2 A rising generation of behavioral psychologists..is fanning out into our society to do its ‘behavior mod’ thing... These lab-trained mod squads have begun infiltrating schools, American family life, [etc.]. |
▪ II. mod, n.3 and a.
(mɒd)
Also with capital initial.
[Abbrev. of modern a. and n. or modernist.]
A. n. A teenager who is characterized by his sophistication and tidiness; freq. contrasted with rocker1. Also attrib. B. adj. Modern, sophisticated, stylish, esp. in dress.
| 1960 New Left Rev. Sept.–Oct. 4/2 Teds and Mods, Beatniks and Ravers. 1963 Guardian 13 May 18/1 Fights between the ‘mods’ and the ‘rockers’. 1964 Observer 24 May 12/2 Mods and Rockers have co-existed comparatively well for a year or so—the Mods, neatly dressed and on scooters, the Rockers in studded leather jackets and on motor-bikes. 1964 Punch 3 June 815/1 (heading) Modgirl. 1965 Granta Summer 10 Student activists..have taken more account of the mod image cultivated by some universities. 1966 Punch 5 Oct. 505/2 He is naturally anxious that your furnishings should include what that enlightened store now calls ‘Mod Gear’. 1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 22 The Mods, both girls and boys, were very clean and neat and both wore close cut hair. Ibid. 194 The ‘Mod’ hair-cut, as opposed to long-haired ‘Rockers’, is short, neat and cut close to the head. 1970 G. Jackson Let. 4 Apr. in Soledad Brother (1971) 207 This running dog..was transmitting the credo of the slave to our youth, the mod version of the old house nigger. 1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 25 Feb. 4/2 The operation by the Metropolitan Police..of a ‘mod squad’..whose members stroll the streets in ‘mod’ dress and unshorn hair. 1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 167 Everybody in our integrated circle of mod people is with it, man. We're the Now Crowd. 1975 Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 3 Aug. 4/3 Jerry, a mod young priest from San Diego. |
▪ III. mod, prep. Math.
(mɒd; also read as ‘modulo’)
Also mod. (with point).
Abbrev. of modulo prep.
The notation b ≡ c (mod. a) (‘b is congruent to c modulo a’) was introduced by Gauss (Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) 1. 2).
| 1854 Cambr. & Dublin Math. Jrnl. IX. 85 Each of these quantities must be congruent to zero, that is A0 ≡ o, A1 ≡ o,{ddd}Ap-2 ≡ o (mod. p). 1860 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1859 i. 230 The congruence ϕ(x) ≡ o, mod P, is said to be solved, when all the integral values of x are assigned which make the left hand number of the congruence divisible by P. 1949 Uspensky & Heaslet Elem. Number Theory vi. 128 Two congruences with the same moduli can be added or subtracted, member by member, like equalities. In other words, from two congruences A ≡ a (mod m), B ≡ b (mod m) it follows that A {pm} B ≡ a {pm} b (mod m). 1949 W. Ledermann Introd. Theory Finite Groups i. 17, ax ≡ bx (mod. m) implies that a ≡ b (mod. m). 1971 D. Gorenstein in Powell & Higman Finite Simple Groups ii. 67, q is an odd prime power congruent to -1 (mod 4). |
▪ IV. mod
obs. form of mood.