Method

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Method may refer to:

• Scientific method, a series of steps taken to acquire knowledge
• Method (computer programming), a piece of code associated with a class or object to perform a task
• Method (music), a kind of textbook to help students learning to play a musical instrument
• Method (patent), a series of steps or acts for performing a function
• Methodology, the collection, comparative study, and critique of the individual methods that are used in a given discipline or field of inquiry
• Method acting, a style of acting in which the actor attempts to replicate the conditions under which the character operates
• Method (Godhead), the bassist and programmer for the industrial band Godhead
• Discourse on Method, a philosophical and mathematical treatise by René Descartes
• "The Method of Mechanical Theorems", part of the Archimedes Palimpsest
• Method (film), a 2004 film directed by Duncan Roy
• Method Products (branded as "method"), a San Francisco-based corporation which manufactures household products
• Method Studios, a Los Angeles-based visual effects company
• Method Incorporated, an international brand experience agency
• Method ringing, a British style of ringing church bells according to a series of mathematical algorithms

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Noun

method (plural methods)

1. A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something.

   If one method doesn't work, you should ask a friend to help you.

   This method saves me a lot of time.

2. A type of theatrical acting wherein the actor utilizes his personal emotions from personal experience to portray a scripted scene.
3. (programming) In object-oriented languages, a subroutine or function belonging to a class or object.
4. (slang) Marijuana.

Derived terms

• methodical
• methodology
• historical method
• scientific method
• scholarly method
• philosophical method

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• Method is essential, and enables a larger amount of work to be got through with satisfaction. "Method," said Cecil (afterward Lord Burleigh), "is like packing things in a box; a good packer will get in half as much again as a bad one." Cecil's despatch of business was extraordinary; his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."
  • Samuel Smiles

• The nature science speaks about its results, the social science speaks about its method.
  • Henri Poincaré

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