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functionally cohesive module comparison table

Subject	have example	interact with	have inputs	have	is a kind of	return	call
cohesive module					module
functionally cohesive module	a module that inputs meteorological data from weather stations and satellites and generates an atmospheric model that other systems can use to generate weather forecasts	the user	function parameters, but they can also include files or some other stream of data	side effects such as updating a database or creating a new file	cohesive module	a simple return value or a more complex data structure	the services of other modules, but the called modules must preserve the functional cohesion

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