(software, object-oriented programming) A special method of an abstract class used in the template method pattern that prescribes an algorithm for its subclasses.

(medicine) A method of treatment of scoliosis, by utilizing plaster jackets.

(object-oriented programming) A method whose behavior can be overridden within an inheriting class by a method with the same signature.

(chemistry) An analytical method for the determination of nitrogen in food, soil etc

plural of method overloading

(object-oriented programming) Synonym of function overloading

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

(mathematics, obsolete) An old kind of calculus in which lines were considered as made up of an infinite number of points; surfaces, as made up of an infinite number of lines; and volumes, as made up of an infinite number of surfaces.

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

(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.