Definition of "method" []

• A means or manner of procedure, especially a regular and systematic way of accomplishing something: a simple method for making a pie crust; mediation as a method of solving disputes. See Usage Note at methodology. (noun)
• Orderly arrangement of parts or steps to accomplish an end: random efforts that lack method. (noun)
• The procedures and techniques characteristic of a particular discipline or field of knowledge: This field course gives an overview of archaeological method. (noun)
• A technique of acting in which the actor recalls emotions and reactions from past experience and uses them in identifying with and individualizing the character being portrayed. (noun)

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• "The most simple and reliable method is that of ERNST which is also called the “auger-hole method”; the principle is as follows:"
• "When food that is being canned is subjected to processing only once, the method is referred to as the _one-period cold-pack method_; but when the food in the jars has not been blanched and cold-dipped and is processed, allowed to stand 24 hours and then processed again, and this operation repeated, it is called the _fractional-sterilization method_."
• "_Mechanicks_, that I have hitherto propounded to my self, but by a certain method (which I may on some other opportunity explain) I have been able presently to examine the possibility of it; and if so, as easily to excogitate divers wayes of performing it: And indeed it is possible to do as much by _this method_ in _Mechanicks_, as by _Algebra_ can be perform'd in _Geometry_."