methodology
/ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "research methodology"
- "In doing so it will describe two metatheories of scientific thought regarding the nature of methodology and epistemology in social science."
- "This volume is an addition to the rapidly growing area of interest in research methodology: the study of mixed method and mixed model studies."
- "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."
- "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."
- "agile methodology"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: méthodologie
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- British English: /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/