The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.

plural of method

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of method

The body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly public.

A method used by philosophers involving such elements as skepticism and methodic doubt, argumentation, and presentation of arguments for criticism by other philosophers.

(historiography) The techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write history.

Durand-Kerner method

a non-invasive auscultatory technique for determining both systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels

(astrophysics, astronomy) A method to develop triaxial equilibrium kinematic models of actual galaxies (without knowledge of the motions of the component elements of the actual galaxies) using a grid and assigning masses and orbits, simulating gravitational evolution with the resulting estimated distributions, to compare with the actual galaxy, until a model results in similarity with the actual galaxy.

The use of twilight sleep to alleviate pain during childbirth.