methodology en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ (General-American)
- /ˌmɛθ.ɪˈdɑ.lɪ.d͡ʒi/ (General-American)
- /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology
From French méthodologie. By surface analysis, method + -ology.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The study of methods used in a field.
Somehow, that cycle was broken by the clever and well-informed lobbying from the Welsh government, with the result that the Core Valleys Lines have received over £1 billion of investment which would not have passed the test of conventional business case methodology.
2026 March 18, Christian Wolmar, “Wales sets example with long-term rail strategy”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 42:This volume is an addition to the rapidly growing area of interest in research methodology: the study of mixed method and mixed model studies.
1998, Abbas Tashakkori, Charles Teddlie, Mixed Methodology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, SAGE, →ISBN:To explore effective pedagogies to motivate these bilingual doctoral researchers to theorise translingually, this paper draws upon methodologies about translingualism and intercultural doctoral education to dispel the recurrent doubts raised by these bilingual doctoral researchers.
2023 October 14, Haibo Shen, “JIĀO/JIÀO 教 Chinese bilingual doctoral researchers to theorise translingually: A pedagogy for intercultural doctoral education”, in Linguistics and Education, volume 77, →DOI:In doing so it will describe two metatheories of scientific thought regarding the nature of methodology and epistemology in social science.
1988, Donald T. Campbell, Methodology and Epistemology for Social Sciences: Selected Papers, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN:research methodology
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(broadly, countable, uncountable) A collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field.
Design Methodology is understood as a concrete course of action for the design of technical systems that derives its knowledge from design science and cognitive psychology, and from practical experience in different domains.
2011, Herbert Birkhofer, The Future of Design Methodology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 2:agile methodology
For example, an agile methodology should promote the frequent delivery of working systems rather than a single big bang delivery.
2006, John Hunt, Agile Software Construction, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 12:
- (countable, uncountable) The implementation of such methods etc.
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Deriveds
methodologically · scientific methodology · ethnomethodology · multimethodology · methodological · antimethodology · methodologist
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Translations (65)
ja 手順 (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · fr méthodologie (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · fi menetelmäoppi (the study of methods used in a field) · cs metodologie (the study of methods used in a field) · de Methodik (the study of methods used in a field) · ka მეთოდიკა (the study of methods used in a field) · kk әдістеме (the study of methods used in a field) · ms metodologi (the study of methods used in a field) · pt metodologia (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · bn প্রণালীবিদ্যা (the study of methods used in a field) · fi menetelmä (the implementation of such methods etc.) · ca metodologia (the study of methods used in a field) · ja 手法 (the implementation of such methods etc.) · ja 方法 (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · nl methodologie (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · ms perkaedahan (the study of methods used in a field) · ga modheolaíocht (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · pl metodyka (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · it metodologia (the study of methods used in a field) · cs metodika (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · de Methodologie (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · vo metodav (the study of methods used in a field) · ro metodologie (the study of methods used in a field) · hi कार्यविधि (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · ko 방법론 (the study of methods used in a field) · ga modheolaíocht (the study of methods used in a field) · uk методоло́гія (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · ka მეთოდოლოგია (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · ru мето́дика (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · nn metodikk (the study of methods used in a field) · cmn 方法論 /方法论 (the study of methods used in a field) · pt metodologia (the implementation of such methods etc.) · el μεθοδολογία (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · da metodologi (the study of methods used in a field) · pl metodologia (the study of methods used in a field) · ka მეთოდოლოგია (the study of methods used in a field) · uk методоло́гія (the study of methods used in a field) · es metodología (the study of methods used in a field) · ru методоло́гия (the study of methods used in a field) · ca metodologia (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · gl metodoloxía (the study of methods used in a field) · el μεθοδολογία (the study of methods used in a field) · ro metodologie (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · ja 方法 (the implementation of such methods etc.) · nb metodikk (the study of methods used in a field) · nl methodologie (the study of methods used in a field) · hi कार्यपद्धति (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · hy մեթոդաբանություն (the study of methods used in a field) · kk әдіснама (the study of methods used in a field) · hi कार्यप्रणाली (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · es metodología (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · de Methodologie (the study of methods used in a field) · ru мето́дика (the study of methods used in a field) · hu módszertan (the study of methods used in a field) · da metodik (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · fi metodologia (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · yi מעטאָדיק (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · pt metodologia (the study of methods used in a field) · de Methodik (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · fr méthodologie (the study of methods used in a field) · ar مَنْهَج (the study of methods used in a field) · id metodologi (the study of methods used in a field) · ja 手法 (a collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field) · ja 方法論 (the study of methods used in a field) · fa روششناسی (the study of methods used in a field)