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C6. VIDEO: (Interview) Daniel Konstanski: Secret Life of Lego Bricks, The New York Public Library, February 7, 2025.

…there was actually this set of proportions that they used. So one of them was named in the patent, it was called a module. But the other one was unnamed and they hadn’t really described it, so LEGO let me name it. I got to call it a section. And when you understand the relationship between the modules and the sections, every LEGO dimension becomes very clean divisions of either modules or sections.

There isn't an agreed-upon term for fractions of a module. Daniel uses 'section' in his book to describe 1/5 of the width of a module. (Also the height of a stud or the width of the wall of most bricks and plates.)