(mathematics) An iterative numerical method for finding a root of an equation f(x)=0, using a succession of roots of secant lines to better approximate the root.

(mathematics) A root-finding method that applies to any continuous functions for which one knows two values with opposite signs, and consists of repeatedly bisecting the interval defined by these values and then selecting the subinterval in which the function changes sign, and therefore must contain a root.

A silver staining technique used to visualize nervous tissue under light microscopy.

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

An alternative therapy involving the use of breathing exercises as a treatment for asthma and other conditions.

An alternative eyesight therapy based on visualization, movement, and imagining visual marks and signs.

(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.

A somatic educational system aiming to reduce pain and improve physical function and wellbeing by increasing students' self-awareness and expanding their movement repertoire.