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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mod
adjective: relating to a recently developed fashion or style; "their offices are in a modern skyscraper"; "tables in modernistic designs"; [syn: {modern}, {modernistic}]
noun: a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "mod": a la mode, advanced, all the rage, all the thing, avant-garde, contemporary, current, far out, fashionable, forward-looking, hip, in, in fashion, in style, in vogue, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, new, newfashioned, now, popular, present-day, present-time, prevalent, progressive, smart, streamlined, trendy, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, way out
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
mod vt.,n. [very common]
1. Short for 'modify' or 'modification'. Very commonly used -- in fact the full terms are considered markers that one is being formal. The plural 'mods' is used esp. with reference to bug fixes or minor design changes in hardware or software, most esp. with respect to {patch} sets or a {diff}. 2. Short for {modulo} but used _only_ for its techspeak sense.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
mod
1. (module) The filename extension for a sampled music file format that originated on the {Commodore} {Amiga}. A .MOD file is composed of digitised sound samples, arranged in patterns to create a song. There are .MOD players for most {personal computer}s including {Amiga}, {Archimedes}, {IBM PC}, and {Macintosh}. An {IBM PC} will require a {sound card} capable of handling digitised samples ({Sound Blaster}, {Sound Blaster Pro}, {GUS}) and slower {Intel 80386}-based PCs may not be able to do anything else while playing a module. .MOD files differ from .MID ({MIDI}) files in that they contain sound samples. This allows each song to use different sounds but it also puts more load on the {CPU} than playing a MIDI file, since more data must be processed for each note. A slow CPU would benefit from a sound card with {wavetable synthesis} which handles samples instead of the CPU. Module files come in various formats including .MOD. Formats evolved from .MOD include .S3M, .FAR and .669. Most contain improvements on .MODs. {(http://www.eskimo.com/~future/mods.htm)}. 2. modify or modification. This abbreviation is very common - in fact the full terms are considered formal. "Mods" is used especially with reference to bug fixes or minor design changes in hardware or software, most especially with respect to {patch} sets or a {diff}. 3. A common name for the {modulo} operator. (1999-07-14)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
*MOD ("StarMOD") A {concurrent} language combining the {module}s of {Modula} and the communications of {Distributed Processes}. ["*MOD - A Language for Distributed Programming", R.P. Cook, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-6(6):563-571 (Nov 1980)]. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-21)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
MOD Magneto-Optical Disk (OD)
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