(linguistics) A technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with a common ancestor.

(mathematics) A method for finding successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function.

A method of teaching through questions rather than lectures.

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

A method of natural birth control that involves counting days of a woman's menstrual cycle in order to determine when sexual intercourse is most or least likely to result in pregnancy.

A rhythm method of natural birth control.

plural of method actor

(chemistry) A method for predicting various important thermodynamic properties from a molecular structure.

(snowboarding, skateboarding) A trick where the boarder grabs the heel edge of the board with their front hand, between their feet, and then pulls the board towards their back, while arching their back and bending knees.

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