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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0716.00007.] Let \(k\) be a field and \(f\in k[X_ 1,\ldots,X_ n]\) a nondegenerate quadratic form. In a previous article by \textit{R.-O. Buchweitz}, \textit{D. Eisenbud} and the author [in Singularities, representation of algebras, and vector bundles, Proc. Symp., Lambrecht/Pfalz 1985, Lect. Notes Math. 1273, 58-116 (1987; Zbl 0633.13008)] it is shown that the category of linear maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over \(R=k[X_ 1,\ldots,X_ n]/f\) and the category of \(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}\)-graded modules (Clifford modules) over the Clifford algebra \(C\) of \(f\) are equivalent. Thus via this equivalence one can study the linear maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over quadrics by analyzing the corresponding Clifford modules. In this paper the Clifford modules are studied for nondegenerate quadratic forms over finite fields of characteristic \(\neq 2\), \(p\)-adic fields with \(p\neq 2\), and the real numbers. If \(k\) is any of these fields, then there exist nondegenerate quadratic forms \(f_ 1,\ldots,f_ n\) over \(k\) with the following property: Let \(C_ i\) be the Clifford algebra of \(f_ i\), and \(M_ i\) the indecomposable Clifford module over \(C_ i\) (which is unique up to isomorphisms and shifts). Then, if there is given an arbitrary nondegenerate quadratic form \(f\) over \(k\) with Clifford algebra \(C\) and indecomposable Clifford module \(M\), then there exist integers \(n_ i\in \mathbb{N}\) and an isomorphism \(\varphi:\hat\otimes C_ i^{n_ i}\to C\) of \(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}\)-graded \(k\)-algebras such that \(_ \varphi M\cong\hat\otimes M_ i^{n_ i}\) where \(_ \varphi M\) is the module \(M\) considered as \(\hat\otimes C_ i^{n_ i}\)-module via \(\varphi\), here \(\hat\otimes\) denotes the twisted tensor product of Clifford algebras and modules. --- As an application one obtains explicit matrix factorizations of nondegenerate quadratic forms over these fields.