What's in a name?

1. Abbr. m or M Physics A quantity that expresses the degree to which

a substance possesses a property, such as elasticity.

2.

a. Mathematics The absolute value of a complex number.
b. Abbr. mod A number by which two given numbers can be divided and produce the same remainder.
c. The number by which a logarithm in one system must be multiplied to obtain the corresponding logarithm in another system.

Edited by Modulous, : No reason given.

Whenever I read you telling that story I wonder if you have any children with the same initials, and whether they will choose for themselves a screenname of dwise2 - and their rather convoluted explanation for how they came to choose that...