(idiomatic) A well-thought-out reason for a person's seemingly illogical behavior.

Use of the Ziehl-Neelsen stain.

Alternative form of gray rock method

A technique for estimating the saturated vapor pressure at a given temperature for all components for which the critical pressure, the critical temperature, and the acentric factor are known.

(informal psychology) The practice of deliberately making oneself uninteresting and unresponsive so as to defend oneself against a narcissist who wishes to elicit certain responses.

Any of a class of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for fluid simulation. Instead of solving the Navier-Stokes equations directly, a fluid density on a lattice is simulated with streaming and collision (relaxation) processes.

plural of barrier method

plural of rhythm method

plural of abstract method

plural of template method