Modularity

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Modularity can refer to one of the following things:

In biology, modularity refers to the concept that organisms or metabolic pathways are composed of modules.
In cognitive science, the modularity of mind refers to the idea that the mind is composed of independent, closed, domain-specific processing modules.
In computer science, modularity is the property of computer programs that measures the extent to which they have been composed out of separate parts called modules.