A method of bulk crystal growth, involving a seed crystal dipped into molten alumina and slowly pulled and rotated to form a single large crystal.

(genetics) A particular method of DNA sequencing, including first lengthening the DNA by means of DNA polymerase. / (geology) A particular method of interpreting seismic refraction data

(mathematics) An algorithm for finding the roots of polynomial equations.

(mathematics, numerical analysis) Any of an important family of implicit and explicit iterative methods for the approximation of solutions of ordinary differential equations.

(mathematics, numerical analysis) A method for solving ordinary differential equations, using six function evaluations to calculate fourth- and fifth-order accurate solutions, the difference between which is then taken to be the error of the (fourth-order) solution.

(mathematics, numerical analysis) One of the Runge-Kutta methods for solving ordinary differential equations.

(software, object-oriented programming) remote procedure call

(cricket) A mathematical algorithm for generating revised target scores for the side batting second in a rain-affected one-day match.

(statistics) A technique used to estimate the reliability or consistency of some measurement by correlating the results of multiple measurements, spread over time.

(mathematics, statistics) Any of a class of techniques for estimating the solution of a numerical mathematical problem by means of a random artificial sampling experiment that simulates the problem.