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   meth·od

   /ˈmeTHəd/

   noun

   • 1. a particular form of procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one: "a method for software maintenance" Similar proceduretechniquesystempracticeroutinemodus operandimethod of workingformulaprocessmeansmediummechanismtackapproachwaylinecourse of actionrouteroadstrategytacticplanreciperule
   • ▪ orderliness of thought or behavior; systematic planning or action: "historical study is the rigorous combination of knowledge and method" Similar orderorderlinessorganizationarrangementstructureformsystemlogicplanningplandesignpurposepatternroutinedisciplineOpposite chaosdisorder
   • ▪ short for method acting

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘prescribed medical treatment for a disease’): via Latin from Greek methodos ‘pursuit of knowledge’, from meta- (expressing development) + hodos ‘way’.

   Scrabble Points: 12

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2. stackoverflow.com › questions › 155609What's the difference between a method and a function?

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 155609

   Sep 30, 2008 · A method is implicitly passed data to operate on by the object on which it was called. A method is able to operate on data that is contained within the class (remembering that an object is an instance of a class - the class is the definition, the object is an instance of that data). (This is a simplified explanation, ignoring issues of scope etc.)

3. stackoverflow.com › questions › 4382945inheritance - Abstract methods in Python - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 4382945

   48. See the abc module. Basically, you define __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta on the class, then decorate each abstract method with @abc.abstractmethod. Classes derived from this class cannot then be instantiated unless all abstract methods have been overridden.

4. stackoverflow.com › questions › 14432114How to return a boolean method in java? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 14432114

   Jan 5, 2017 · Edit: Sometimes you can't return early because there's more work to be done. In that case you can declare a boolean variable and set it appropriately inside the conditional blocks.

5. stackoverflow.com › questions › 826932Declaring functions in JSP? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 826932

   Apr 14, 2014 · Apr 23, 2015 at 1:50. Declare public static functions in the proper class, and if you need functions because of hierarchy/modularity or structural reasons then put it in a separate JSP, and include that. In the latter case, parameters can be passed on with request.setAttribute(String, Object) and request.getAttribute(String, Object).

6. stackoverflow.com › questions › 17929543How can I dynamically create class methods for a class in python

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 17929543

   @patch_methods(MyClass) class MyClassPatcher: def extra_method_a(self): print('a', self) @classmethod def extra_class_method_b(cls): print('c', cls) # !!ATTENTION!! the effect on declaring staticmethod here may not work as expected: # calling this method on an instance will take the self into the first argument.

7. stackoverflow.com › questions › 48521903java - Map custom method mapper to Mapstruct - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 48521903

   Jan 30, 2018 · I'm creating a poc for using Mapstruct in my future projects. Now I have one question how to map custom methods to a special target. For example I have following interface mapper: @Mapper public

8. stackoverflow.com › questions › 16950560What is define([ , function ]) in JavaScript? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 16950560

   I see this being used all the time in JavaScript: define(['param1', 'param2'], function() { }); What is the define function?