methods

Method may refer to:Scientific method, a series of steps taken to acquire knowledgeMethod (computer science), a piece of code associated with a class or object to perform a taskMethod (music), a kind of textbook to help students learning to play a musical instrumentMethodology, the collection, the comparative study, and the critique of the individual methods that are used in a given discipline or field of inquiryMethodology (software engineering), a series of steps taken to build softwareMethod acting, a style of acting in which the actor attempts to replicate the conditions under which the character operatesMethod (Godhead), the bassist and programmer for the industrial band GodheadDiscourse on Method, a philosophical and mathematical treatise by René Descartes"The Method of Mechanical Theorems", part of the Archimedes PalimpsestMethod, a 2004 film directed by Duncan Roymethod, a San Francisco-based corporation which manufactures household products
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<language> A line-oriented Smalltalk for PC's, produced by Digitalk ca 1985. Methods was the predecessor of Smalltalk/V.
(1995-04-16)

<programming> The name given in Smalltalk and other object-oriented languages to a procedure or routine associated with one or more classes. An object of a certain class knows how to perform actions, e.g. printing itself or creating a new instance of itself, rather than the function (e.g. printing) knowing how to handle different types of object.
Different classes may define methods with the same name (i.e. methods may be polymorphic). The term "method" is used both for a named operation, e.g. "PRINT" and also for the code which a specific class provides to perform tha t operation.
Most methods operate on objects that are instances of a certain class. Some object-oriented languages call these "object methods" to distinguish then from "class methods".
In Smalltalk, a method is defined by giving its name, documentation, temporary local variables and a sequence of expressions separated by "."s.
(2000-03-22)

Noun
1. a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps)
(hypernym) know-how
(hyponym) teaching method, pedagogics, pedagogy