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Mod or mods may refer to: In culture and music:Mod (lifestyle), 1960s British youth subcultureMod revival, a rebirth of the mod subculture in the late 1970sMod Club Theatre, a nightclub in Toronto, OntarioMods (band), a Norwegian rock band Body-modificationMod (Scotland), a festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and cultureM.O.D., "Method of Destruction", Billy Milano's next band after S.O.D.MuchOnDemand, a request music-television show aired on Much Music in CanadaPre-designed and packaged kits designed to alter an existing (audio) circuit (i.e. a guitar pedal)
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MOD is a computer file format used primarily to represent music, and was the first module file format. MOD files use the “.MOD” file extension, except on the Amiga where the original trackers instead use a “mod.” prefix scheme, e.g. “mod.echoing”. A MOD file contains a set of instruments in the form of samples, a number of patterns indicating how and when the samples are to be played, and a list of what patterns to play in what order.
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In states where the government is divided into ministries, the Ministry of Defence ( or Ministry of Defense ) may refer to that part of the government responsible for matters of defence, usually including all branches of the military and is usually controlled by a Defence minister or minister of defence.
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A mod is a festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture. Historically, the Gaelic word mòd refers to any kind of assembly. There are both local mods, and an annual national mod, the Royal National Mod. Mods are run under the aupisces of An Comunn Gaidhealach.A Mod largely takes the form of formal competitions. Choral events (in Gaelic, both solo and choirs), and traditional music including fiddle, bagpipe and folk groups dominate. Spoken word events include children and adult's poetry reading, storytelling and Bible reading, and categories such as Ancient Folk Tale or Humorous Monologue. Children can also present an original drama, and there are competitions in written literature.
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mod, modern, advanced, contemporary, current

MOD, Magneto Optical Disk, storage medium which uses magnetic and optical methods for reading and writing data (Computers)

("StarMOD") A concurrent language combining the modules 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)].
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(1994-10-21)

1. <filename extension, application, file format, music> (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 computers 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)