(education) A mathematics and reading program through which students work at their own pace, intended to supplement school lessons.

(computing) An algorithm for securely erasing the contents of a hard drive by writing a number of different patterns over the existing data.

(physics) A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily liquefiable, and so on.

(education) A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements.

(object-oriented programming) A method created for convenience so that some other, more complex task can be solved more easily.

A technique to treat infants' sleep problems, involving teaching the infant to soothe itself by allowing it to cry for a period of time before external comfort is offered.

Alternative form of Euler method

(mathematical analysis) A summation method.

(mathematical analysis) Any of various methods for constructing generalized sums of series

A form of high-intensity interval training consisting of eight rounds of intense exercise performed for 20 seconds at a time with 10-second breaks.